Medical Specialty:
Emergency Room Reports
Sample Name: Fall & Laceration
Description: Patient running to catch a taxi and stumbled, fell and struck his face on the sidewalk.
(Medical Transcription Sample Report)
CC: Fall and laceration.
HPI: Mr. B is a 42-year-old man who was running to catch a taxi when he stumbled, fell and struck his face on the sidewalk. He denies loss of consciousness but says he was dazed for a while after it happened. He complains of pain over the chin and right forehead where he has abrasions. He denies neck pain, back pain, extremity pain or pain in the abdomen.
PMH: Hypertension.
MEDS: None.
ROS: As above. Otherwise negative.
Vital Signs: BP 165/95 HR 80 RR 12 Temp 98.4 SpO2 95%
HEENT: No palpable step offs, there is blood over the right fronto-parietal area where there is a small 1cm laceration and surrounding abrasion. Also, 2 cm laceration over the base of the chin without communication to the oro-pharynx. No other trauma noted. No septal hematoma. No other facial bony tenderness.
Neck: Nontender
Chest: Breathing comfortably; equal breath sounds.
Heart: Regular rhythm.
Abd: Benign.
Ext: No tenderness or deformity; pulses are equal throughout; good cap refill
Neuro: Awake and alert; slight slurring of speech and cognitive slowing consistent with alcohol; moves all extremities; cranial nerves normal.
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