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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 366
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/13/2003 | Age: 4 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: Plastic wrapping products |
| PLAYING WITH PLASTIC WRAP IN MOUTH AND BEGAN CHOKING;CHOKING EPISODE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/28/2003 | Age: 11 months | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Internal | Diagnosis: Aspirated Object |
| Product: Plastic wrapping products, Bottles or jars |
| PT COUGHED , APNEA FOR FEW SEC, SPIT OUT BLOOD-POSSIBLE FOREIGN BODY. DX SWALLOWED FOREIGN BODY WRAPPER TO MEDICINE BOTTLE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/24/2003 | Age: 7 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Internal | Diagnosis: Aspirated Object |
| Product: Plastic wrapping products |
| PATIENT GAGGING, COUGHED UP PIECE OF PLASTIC WRAP WHILE IN ED; FB IN TH ROAT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/20/2003 | Age: 10 months | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Internal | Diagnosis: Aspirated Object |
| Product: Plastic wrapping products |
| PATIENT SWALLOWED CELLOPHANE WRAPPER FROM CIGARETTE PACK 1 WEEK AGO, HA S NOISE WITH INHALATION, GRANDMOTHER MAY NOT HAVE GOTTEN IT ALL OUT |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 10/16/2003 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Internal | Diagnosis: Aspirated Object |
| Product: Plastic wrapping products |
| CHOKED AND POSSIBLY ASPIRATED PLASTIC CANDY WRAPPER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/19/2003 | Age: 6 months | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Internal | Diagnosis: Aspirated Object |
| Product: Plastic wrapping products |
| PT WAS CHOKING, BECAME BLUE AND THEN WENT LIMP- EMS CALLED SMALL PIECES OF CANDY WRAPPER RETRIEVED. DX UPPER AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION F.B REMOVED. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/18/2003 | Age: 18 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: Aspirated Object |
| Product: Plastic wrapping products |
| PT HAS PIECES OF PLASTIC FROM POPSICLE STUCK IN THROAT. HAVING DIFFICUL TY SWALLOWING. D: FOREIGN BODY, THROAT. ADMIT. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 09/13/2003 | Age: 46 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: Aspirated Object |
| Product: Plastic wrapping products |
| PT ACCID. SWALLOWED PILL THAT WAS WRAPPED IN PLASTIC/FOIL MED WRAPPING COUGHED IT ALL UP, BUT HAS SORE THROAT/BLOOD. D:CONCERN FOR INGESTION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/03/2003 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Internal | Diagnosis: Aspirated Object |
| Product: Plastic wrapping products |
| PT ATE 1/2 OF BREAKFAST SANDWICH WITH PLASTIC IN IT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/10/2003 | Age: 16 months | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Internal | Diagnosis: Ingested Object |
| Product: Plastic wrapping products |
| PT SWALLOWED CELOPHANE WRAPPER. D: VOMITING - SWALLOWED WRAPPER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/19/2003 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Internal | Diagnosis: Aspirated Object |
| Product: Plastic wrapping products |
| PATIENT CHOKED WHEN EATING A BISCUIT FROM ***, HAD PIECE OF PLASTIC WRA P ON BISCUIT, ALSO FELL ON ARM YESTERDAY; WRIST PAIN, CHOK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/09/2003 | Age: 9 months | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Internal | Diagnosis: Ingested Object |
| Product: Plastic wrapping products |
| CHOKED ON PLASTIC. SOB MILD. SWALLOWED PLASTIC WRAPPING PAPER. DX; INGESTED FB (PLASTIC) |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/13/2003 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Internal | Diagnosis: Aspirated Object |
| Product: Plastic wrapping products |
| PT SWALLOWED PART OF WRAPPPER FROM A COOKIE, CHOKED THEN COUGHED IT UP. DX SWALLED FOREIGN OBJECT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/24/2003 | Age: 13 years | 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: Plastic wrapping products |
| INHALED FB/13YOM STS EATING CANDY AT HOME, COUGHED & THERE WAS A PIECE OF PLASTIC ON FLOOR. HE INHALED IT. C/O THROAT HURTING. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/31/2003 | Age: 11 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Internal | Diagnosis: Aspirated Object |
| Product: Plastic wrapping products |
| PATIENT PICKED UP FROM DAYCARE WITH DIFFICULTY SWALLOWING, HAD CHOKED E ARLIER; SMALL PIECE OF PLASTIC WRAP COATED WITH MILK IN MOUTH |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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