EMDocs: My Patient is Deaf. What Should I Know?

IV Mirus
Oct 31, 2021
1 min read

Case:

A 68-year-old woman presents by ambulance for evaluation after a fall down stairs. The patient had a fall and was found by the stairway. EMS has not been able to obtain a history or circumstances surrounding the fall because the patient is deaf and uses sign language.

EMS reports the patient to be alert, in acute pain with obvious deformity to the left wrist (with a splint in place), and has a C-collar in place for precaution. A peripheral IV has been inserted.

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