| Cover Report by Paul Murphy, MSHA, MA, Chris Colwell, MD, and Gilbert Pineda, MD, FACEP
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help protect patients An EMS crew responds to a report of a fall from a roof. Upon arrival they fi nd an elderly male patient lying on his right side. He is unconscious, with sonorous respirations. His skin is cool, moist and pale. Bystanders say he was cleaning his gutters when he appeared to slip and fall off the roof. He fell approximately 25 feet onto a hard surface and has not been responsive or moved since the fall.
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