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Accidents - Scuba diving - Year 2003

 



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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,134
See also: Lethal accidents, Other years, Other products.

Accidents - Sex

Accidents - Race

Accidents - Body Parts:
Ear:450All Of Body:151
Head:96Hand:94
Eyeball:77Neck:77
Lower Trunk:68Upper Trunk:68
Foot:16Unkown:16
Finger:16

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records


Date: 12/28/2003Age: 47 yearsSex: FemaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: Place of recreation or sportsFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HeadDiagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Scuba diving
PT TAKING INSTRUCTION IN SCUBA DIVING, WENT OFF BOAT BACKWARDS AND CAME UP UNDERNEATH BOAT HITTING HEAD. D: CLOSED HEAD INJURY, FACE CONTUSION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 12/16/2003Age: 30 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: Place of recreation or sportsFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: NeckDiagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Scuba diving
HIT ROCK WHILE SCUBA DIVING NECK STRAIN, SCALP ABRASION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 11/27/2003Age: 50 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: Place of recreation or sportsFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: EarDiagnosis: Other
Product: Scuba diving
OTITIS EXTERNA - 50 YOM WENT SCUBA DIVING LAST WEEK AND NOW C/O PAIN RI GHT AND LEFT EARS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 11/06/2003Age: 30 yearsSex: FemaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: Place of recreation or sportsFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: EarDiagnosis: Other
Product: Scuba diving
PT COMPLAINING OF VERTIGO X 2 DAYS SINCE SCUBA DIVING OFF BOAT ON TRIP. D: LABRYNTHITIS, VERTIGO.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 10/25/2003Age: 27 yearsSex: MaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: Place of recreation or sportsFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: FingerDiagnosis: Crushing
Product: Scuba diving
PT. WAS SCUBA DIVING, WALKED BACK WITH SCUBA EQUIPTMENT, LOST FOOTING, CRUSH INJURY WITH TANK. DX. RING FINGER CRUSH INJURY.
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)


Date: 10/25/2003Age: 37 yearsSex: MaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: Place of recreation or sportsFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: UnkownDiagnosis: Other
Product: Scuba diving
37 YOM SCUBA DIVING IN QUARRY CAME UP TO QUICKLY DIAGNOSIS NOT FOUND
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 08/22/2003Age: 19 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: Place of recreation or sportsFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HandDiagnosis: Other
Product: Scuba diving
PT WAS SCUBA DIVING IN THE GULF RUBBED LEFT HAND AGAINST SOME CORAL AND IT GOT INFECTED CELLULITIS HAND
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 08/18/2003Age: 42 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: Place of recreation or sportsFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HeadDiagnosis: Other
Product: Scuba diving
PT DEVELOPED HEADACHE WHILE SCUBA DIVING, WORSE AFTER SECOND DIVE. DX: HEADACHE, ACUTE/SEVERE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 08/09/2003Age: 44 yearsSex: FemaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: EyeballDiagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Scuba diving
POKED IN EYE WITH DIVING GEAR AT HOME CORNEAL ABRASION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 08/09/2003Age: 33 yearsSex: FemaleRace: White
Location: Other public propertyFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Submersion
Product: Scuba diving
BARO TRAUMA. SCUBA DIVING AND MADE A RAPID 30 FOOT ASCNET
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)


Date: 08/07/2003Age: 38 yearsSex: MaleRace: Other
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: EarDiagnosis: Other
Product: Scuba diving
38 Y.O.M. WITH EAR PAIN. STARTED AFTER HE BEGAN SCUBA DIVING.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 08/03/2003Age: 63 yearsSex: MaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Other
Product: Scuba diving
PNEUMONIA-SYMPTOMS STARTED AFTER SCUBA DIVING IN *** LAST WE EK
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 07/29/2003Age: 31 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: Place of recreation or sportsFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: EarDiagnosis: Other
Product: Scuba diving
SCUBA DIVING AT HOMESTEAD RESORT WHEN EARS BEGAN TO HURT DX OTITIS EXTERNA
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 07/17/2003Age: 48 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: Place of recreation or sportsFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: EarDiagnosis: Other
Product: Scuba diving
PT VISITING HERE FROM TEXAS WAS SCUBA DIVING COMPLAINING OF PAIN IN RIG HT EAR RIGHT OTITIS EXTERNA
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 07/15/2003Age: 46 yearsSex: FemaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: Place of recreation or sportsFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Other
Product: Scuba diving
SCUBA DIVING AT 65 FT,SHOT UP FROM 40 FT;NAUSEA,HEADACHE;DECOMPRESSIOND ISEASE NOW
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 07/13/2003Age: 42 yearsSex: FemaleRace: White
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: EarDiagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Scuba diving
WHILE SCUBA DIVING DOVE DOWN 42 FFT ON WAY BACK UP TO SURFACE FELT EAR POP DX RUPTURED EAR DRUM
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 07/03/2003Age: 12 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: Place of recreation or sportsFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper TrunkDiagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Scuba diving
PT COMPLAINING OF CHEST PAIN AFTER A SCUBA DIVING TRIP IN THE GULF- STR AINED CHEST MUSCLES
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 07/03/2003Age: 50 yearsSex: MaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: Place of recreation or sportsFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Anoxia
Product: Scuba diving
SCUBA DIVING,CAME UP AND SIGNALLED FOR HELP,HAD CARDIAC ARREST,CPR FOR 40 MINUTES.DIED OF ACUTE GAS EMBOLISM
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead


Date: 07/02/2003Age: 36 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: Place of recreation or sportsFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HandDiagnosis: Crushing
Product: Scuba diving
PATIENT WAS DIVING AT STATE PARK AT RIVER, RIGHT HAND GOT CAUGHT BETWEE N CEMENT AND 27 LB FACE MASK. DX CRUSH INJURY RIGHT HAND W/CONTUSION.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 06/18/2003Age: 18 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: Place of recreation or sportsFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Submersion
Product: Scuba diving
PT WAS SCUBA DIVING AND BECAME SEPARATED FROM OTHERS FOR 10 MIN. DX: CARDIOPULMONARY ARREST, FATAL DROWNING.
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead


Date: 06/15/2003Age: 39 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: Other public propertyFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Anoxia
Product: Scuba diving
ASPHYXIA PROBABLY DURE TO HYPERVENTILATION. DURING SCUBA DIVING IN SHALLOW WATER
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)


Date: 06/14/2003Age: 39 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: Place of recreation or sportsFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: FootDiagnosis: Other
Product: Scuba diving
PT C/O NUMBNESS TO BOOTH FEET AFTER SCUBA DIVING
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 06/06/2003Age: 48 yearsSex: FemaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: Place of recreation or sportsFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: EarDiagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Scuba diving
48 YOF SCUBA DIVING CONTUISON EAR
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 05/25/2003Age: 20 yearsSex: FemaleRace: White
Location: Place of recreation or sportsFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: EarDiagnosis: Other
Product: Scuba diving
PT SCUBA DIVING IN THE GULF SUSTAINED A BAROTRAUMA TO RIGHT EAR
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 05/03/2003Age: 18 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: Place of recreation or sportsFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: EarDiagnosis: Other
Product: Scuba diving
PT SCUBA DIVING DOWN ABOUT 20 FEET RUPTURED RIGHT EAR DRUM BAROTRAUMA E AR
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 04/21/2003Age: 62 yearsSex: FemaleRace: White
Location: Place of recreation or sportsFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Other
Product: Scuba diving
PT C/O WEAKNESS AFTER SCUBA DIVINDG IN THE BAHAMAS
Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital


Date: 04/11/2003Age: 25 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: Other public propertyFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower TrunkDiagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Scuba diving
PT WAS IN *** TWO DAYS AGO LIFTED TWO HEAVY SCUBA TANKS STRAINED LOWER ABDOMEN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 04/05/2003Age: 42 yearsSex: FemaleRace: White
Location: Other public propertyFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: EarDiagnosis: Other
Product: Scuba diving
RT OTITIS MEDIA-PAIN SINCE HER LAST SCUBA DIVING CLASS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 04/04/2003Age: 27 yearsSex: FemaleRace: White
Location: Place of recreation or sportsFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower TrunkDiagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Scuba diving
PT HAS HAD PX SINCE SCUBA DIVING YESTERDAY. DX: LUMBAR STRAIN.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 02/23/2003Age: 41 yearsSex: FemaleRace: Black/African American
Location: Other public propertyFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: EarDiagnosis: Other
Product: Scuba diving
PT STATES SHE WAS IN THE BAHAMAS SCUBA DIVING AND DEVELOPED PAIN IN BOTH EARS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 02/09/2003Age: 27 yearsSex: MaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: Place of recreation or sportsFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Other
Product: Scuba diving
SCUBA DIVING AND WENT DOWN TO 80 FEET;DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS NOW
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 02/04/2003Age: 31 yearsSex: FemaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower TrunkDiagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Scuba diving
DX LOWER BACK STRAIN: STEPPING OUT OF WATER AFTER SCUBA DIVING, SLIPPED SIDEWAYS, TWISTED BACK.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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