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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 303
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 11/05/2003 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Pins and needles |
| PT WAS GIVING HIMSELF A HOME MADE TATTOO AT HOME WITH A SEWING NEEDLE I N THE LEFT LOWER ARM THREE DAYS AGO GOT INFECTED CELLULITIS ARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/01/2003 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pins and needles, Sewing basket articles |
| PT WITH POSSIBLE SEWING NEEDLE IN FOREARM. THREAD COMING OUT OF ARM. WO KE UP WITH IT. D: FOREIGN BODY, FOREARM; REMOVED. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/24/2003 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pins and needles |
| FB L NEEDLE (SEWING NEEDLE); REGIONAL CENTER PATIENT STATES DELIBERATEL Y TRIED TO CAUSE PROBLEM WITH HEART BY INSERTING NEEDLE IN ARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/05/2003 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Pins and needles |
| PATIENT HAD BLISTERS ON HIS LEFT THUMB FOR FEW DAYS, HE OPENED LESIONS WITH A NEEDLE, NOW HAS STREAK UP FOREARM. DX CELLULITIS/LYMPHANGITIS FO |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/03/2003 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pins and needles |
| CUT TO L ARM FRI IN MVA.PT SEWED WOUND HIMSELF W/ NEEDLE & THREAD.NOW W/ REDNESS,PAIN L ARM.DX L ARM LAC,HEALING W/ CELLULITIS/THORACIC. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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