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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 298
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/26/2008 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Internal | Diagnosis: Ingested Object |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| SWALLOWED PEN CAP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/17/2008 | Age: 9 months | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Internal | Diagnosis: Ingested Object |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PT SWALLOWED A PLASTIC CAP TO A PEN. NO COMLICATIONS. HAPPENED YEST. DX FB INGESTED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/09/2008 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Internal | Diagnosis: Ingested Object |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| INGESTED PIECE OF PENCIL;DX INGESTED FOREIGN OBJECT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/27/2008 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Internal | Diagnosis: Aspirated Object |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PATIENT PUT BLUE PEN CAP IN NOSE LAST NIGHT; FB REMOVED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/16/2008 | Age: 21 months | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Internal | Diagnosis: Aspirated Object |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PATIENT PUT PENCIL ERASER IN NOSE; FB REMOVED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/06/2008 | Age: 11 months | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Internal | Diagnosis: Aspirated Object |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| CHOKING ON PENCIL L PERITONSILLAR TRAUMA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/26/2008 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Internal | Diagnosis: Ingested Object |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PT GAGGING/CHOKING AT HOME & TOLD MOM SWALLOWED SOMETHING, WAS LAYING D OWN & WRITING W/PENCIL, LIKELY CHOKED ON PENCIL; FOREIGN BODY RULED OUT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/14/2008 | Age: 7 months | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Internal | Diagnosis: Ingested Object |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| INGESTED TIP OF MARKER;DX INGESTED OBJECT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/15/2008 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Internal | Diagnosis: Ingested Object |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| WAS CHEWING ON PENCIL ERASERS, THEN GAGGED, & VOMITED- NO ERASERS IN EMESIS. DX: PROBALBE FB INGESTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/28/2008 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Internal | Diagnosis: Ingested Object |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PT SWALLOWED THE PLASTIC TOP OF A PEN FB INGESTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/10/2008 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Internal | Diagnosis: Ingested Object |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| SWALLOWED PENCIL ERASER, NOW HAS ABD PAIN. DX FB INGESTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/24/2008 | Age: 10 months | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Internal | Diagnosis: Aspirated Object |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| GOT AHOLD OF A PEN TIP, & SWALLOWED IT, 3DAYS AGO, HAS BEEN WHEEZING EVER SINCE. DX: FB ASPIRATION- MILD RESP. DISTRESS- TO O.R. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 05/09/2008 | Age: 23 months | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Internal | Diagnosis: Aspirated Object |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PT STUCK PENCIL ERASER UP NOSE. DX: FB NOSE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/03/2008 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Internal | Diagnosis: Ingested Object |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| NOTICED BEEN CHOKING, INGESTED A PALSTIC MARKER CAP >> FOREIGN BODY INGESTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/28/2008 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Internal | Diagnosis: Ingested Object |
| Product: Pens and pencils, Books, magazines, albums or scrapbooks |
| SWALLOWED THREAD FROM BOOKMARK OR STRING OF PENCIL 1 MO AGO,BREATHING D IFF, SEEN BY PMD, CONTINUES W/COUGH/DIFF BREATHING; FB INGESTION, COUGH |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/24/2008 | Age: 12 months | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Internal | Diagnosis: Ingested Object |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| DX FEAR OF ASPIRATED FB: POSS SWOLLOWD CAP TO A HIGH LIGHTER: MOP STATE PT PLAYING WITH MARKER, LATER NOTICE CAP WAS MISSING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/05/2008 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Internal | Diagnosis: Ingested Object |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| SWALLOWED THE TIP OF A PEN. DX FB INGESTED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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