Elderly patient falls during imaging study

Obtained recovery on behalf of an eighty-nine-year-old woman who was admitted to a southern Massachusetts hospital for cardiac evaluation. She was evaluated to be a significant fall risk, but when she was taken to radiology for an x-ray to confirm pacemaker lead placement, the radiology technician had her stand unassisted and she promptly fell. She suffered a facial laceration and an elbow fracture, which required surgery and physical therapy.