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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,515
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
Date: 05/21/2010 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Electric Shock |
Product: Televisions |
20YOF SUSTAINED ELECTRIC SHOCK WHEN SHE WAS UNPLUGGING THE CABLE BOX* |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 12/27/2009 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Televisions |
WATCHING TV AND HAD A SEIZURE |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 11/20/2009 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Electric Shock |
Product: Televisions |
CHEST PAIN, S.O.B. 2ND TO ELECTRICAL SHOCK: CHECKING PICTURE TUBE OF TV WHEN GOT SHOCKED BY TV, UNPLUGGED X 2 WKS, CHEST PAIN, S.O.B. |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 08/07/2009 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Televisions |
SUDDEN ONSET OF HYPERVENTILATION, CHEST/THROAT TIGHTNESS AFTER GETTING EMOTIONAL WATCHING A TV COMMERCIAL>>ANXIETY |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 02/24/2009 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Electric Shock |
Product: Televisions |
STATES HE WAS PLUGGING IN HIS TV LAST WEEK AND HAD GOT SHOCKED, HAS HAD A HEADACHE EVER SINCE. DX: HEADACHE* |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 02/03/2009 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Televisions |
H/O SEIZURES, WAS WATCHING TV WITH FRIENDS&ACCORDING TO WITNESSES PT HA D AN EPISODE OF SIEZURES LASTED ONE MINUTE>>SEIZURE |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 01/18/2009 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
Product: Televisions |
SUPPOSED TO BE IN THE ROOM WATCHING TV, DAD WENT TO CHECK ON HIM&FOUND HIM UNRESPONSIVE, H/O INSULIN DEPENDANT DIABETIC>>HYPOGLYCEMIC SZ |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 11/03/2008 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
Product: Televisions, Illegal drugs |
PATIENT WATCHING TV AT FRIEND'S HOUSE WHEN STARTED HAVING A SEIZURE, +T OX FOR THC; SEIZURE W/GUM LAC. |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 11/08/2007 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Electric Shock |
Product: Televisions, Electrical outlets or receptacles |
PT.WAS SHOCKED AT HOME WHEN PLUGING IN A T.V. CORD INTO A WALL PLUG. DX ; ELECTRICAL SHOCK. |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 10/10/2007 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Televisions |
JUMPED SUDDENLY WHILE WATCHING TV, LIPS TURNED PALE, BECAME ANXIOUS&CO NFUSED >> SZ LIKE ACTIVITY |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 07/08/2007 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Televisions |
22 YO MALE BECAME UNRESPONSIVE WHILE WATCHING TV SEIZURE |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 06/06/2007 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Electric Shock |
Product: Televisions |
PT WAS PLUGGING IN TV, SUSTAINED SHOCK |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 03/04/2007 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Televisions |
SITTING WATCHING THE TV, SUDDENLY DEVELOPED EPIGASTRIC PAIN, SYNCOPED&F ELL " SYNCOPE/ANEMIA" |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 09/20/2006 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Televisions |
WATCHING TV & HAD ANXIETY ATTACK |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 09/02/2006 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Televisions |
BEGAN BREATHING FAST WHILE WATCHING T.V. DX: HYPERVENTALATION |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 08/20/2006 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Televisions |
PT WATCHING T.V., PT HAD BODY STIFFNESS W/ JERKING EXTREMITIES DX: POSS SEIZURE |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 05/22/2006 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Televisions |
PT WAS WATCHING A PARTICULARLY GOREY MOVINE ON TELEVISION AND AT A SCEN E GOT SCARED THEN HAD A SEIZURE- DX SEIZURE ACTIVITY |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 12/07/2005 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Televisions |
ONSET OF HEADACHE AND DYSPNEA AT HOME WHILE WATCHING TV. DX: PANIC ATT ACK, PSVT. |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 09/29/2005 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Electric Shock |
Product: Televisions, Electrical outlets or receptacles |
PT WAS PLUGGING TV CORD INTO SOCKET AND FELT SHOCK. DX: ELECTRIC SHOCK. |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 06/21/2005 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Televisions |
THREATENED ABORTION - PAIN AFTER LIFTING A TELEVISION |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 05/28/2005 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Televisions |
25 YO FEMALE HAD WALL MOUNT TV FALL AND HIT HEAD DIZZINESS |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 09/05/2004 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Televisions |
DIZZY AFTER TV FELL ON HEAD DX. SYNCOPE |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 08/29/2004 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Electric Shock |
Product: Televisions |
21 YOM PLUGGED IN TELEVISION RECIEVED ELECTRICAL SHOCK |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 07/31/2004 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Televisions |
PT C/O PAINS IN CHEST DIZZY. PT WAS WATCHING T.V. WHEN PAINS STARTED. D X ACUTE DYSPNEA COSTOCHONDRITIS ACUTE. |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 06/19/2004 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Televisions |
20 YO FEMALE WAS SOB WHILE WATCHING TV AT HOME REACTIVE AIRWAY DISEASE |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 11/09/2003 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Televisions |
ONSET OF HEART PALPITATIONS WHLE WATCHING TV SHOW ON 'HAUNTING'. DX; A NXIETY. |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 08/30/2003 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Televisions |
VERTIGO. PT WAS WATCHING TELEVISION AND WHEN SHE STOOD UP, GOT DIZZY. |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 05/28/2003 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Electric Shock |
Product: Televisions |
ELECTRICAL SHOCK - 17 YOF STATES SHE WAS SHOCKED WITH AN UNPLUGGED TELE VISION, 12 WKS PREGNANT, C/O COUGHING UP BLOOD |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 02/25/2003 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Televisions |
PT HAD SEIZURE WHILE WATCHING TV DX: SEIZURE |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 02/21/2003 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Televisions |
PATIENT FELT DIZZY WITH HEART RACING WHILE WATCHING TELEVISION; VIRAL, HEART RACING |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 06/13/2002 | 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: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Televisions |
SYNCOPAL EPISODE - HAD SYNCOPAL EPISODE WHEN REACHING FOR TELEVISION |
Disposition: Held for observation |
Date: 11/11/2001 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Electric Shock |
Product: Televisions |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 01/31/2001 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Televisions |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 12/08/2000 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Televisions |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 05/04/2000 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Televisions |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 01/05/2000 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attended |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
Product: Televisions |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 12/03/1999 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Televisions |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 01/01/1999 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Televisions |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 09/23/1997 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Electric Shock |
Product: Televisions, Electrical wire or wiring systems |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 08/05/1997 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Electric Shock |
Product: Televisions |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 04/18/1997 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Electric Shock |
Product: Televisions |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 04/17/1997 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attended |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
Product: Televisions |
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
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