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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 798
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/27/2004 | Age: 61 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: Crutches, canes or walkers, Floors or flooring materials |
| 61 YO WALKING W/WALKER FELL ON FLOOR WEAKNESS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/20/2004 | Age: 81 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Crutches, canes or walkers |
| FELL WALKING WITH WALKER DX. WEAKNESS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/11/2004 | Age: 73 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: Poisoning |
| Product: Crutches, canes or walkers |
| PT WITH BILATERAL ARM/LEG PAIN, FATIGUE, SOME SOB. USES WALKER. TAKES * ** & COQ10. D:MEDICATION SIDE EFFECT, SHORTNESS OF BREATH. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/19/2004 | Age: 76 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: Crutches, canes or walkers |
| SYNCOPE - LOST BALANCE WHEN USING WALKER |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 09/28/2004 | Age: 91 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: Crutches, canes or walkers |
| SYNCOPE - LEGS BUCKLED UNDER HER WHEN WALKING WITH WALKER |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 09/23/2004 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Crutches, canes or walkers |
| GOT WEAK WALKING WITH WALKER DX. SYNCOPE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/03/2004 | Age: 95 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Crutches, canes or walkers |
| WAS WALKING WITH HIS WALKER AT HOME, FELL AND HIT HIS RT ARM, UNSURE ON WHAT? WEAKNESS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/27/2004 | Age: 84 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Crutches, canes or walkers, Floors or flooring materials |
| PT FELL WHILE USING WALKER AT HOME FOUND DOWN ON FLOOR |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 06/04/2004 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Crutches, canes or walkers |
| 43 YO MALE WALKS WITH CANE AND FELL OUT AT MISSION DIZZY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/27/2004 | Age: 88 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: Crutches, canes or walkers, Floors or flooring materials |
| 88 YO F WALKING W/CANE FELL ON FLOOR FALL/ATRIAL FIBRILLATION |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 05/22/2004 | Age: 66 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: Crutches, canes or walkers |
| COPD,CHF - FELL WHEN GETTING TANGLED IN WALKER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/25/2004 | Age: 64 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Crutches, canes or walkers |
| FELL, HIT BACK OF HEAD + ETOH WHILE AMB WITH WALKER DX SCALP LACERATION, ETOH ABUSE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/07/2004 | Age: 68 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Crutches, canes or walkers |
| FELL IN BATHROOM WHILE AMBULATING WITH CRUTCHES. DX- HYPOGLYCEMIA, STAT US POST FRACTURE R ANKLE |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 03/06/2004 | Age: 75 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Crutches, canes or walkers, Doors |
| TRIPPED USING WALKER, FELL INTO FRONT DOOR AT HOME YESTERDAY, DYSPNEA T ODAY. DX; CHF, ALCOHOL WITHDRAWL. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 03/02/2004 | Age: 84 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Crutches, canes or walkers |
| PT FELL TO GROUND WHEN WALKING WITH HER WALKER DX:SYNCOPE |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 02/12/2004 | Age: 75 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: Crutches, canes or walkers |
| PT WAS INJURED WHILE WALKING WITH A WALKER DX: NEAR SYNCOPE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/21/2004 | Age: 65 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Crutches, canes or walkers, Toilets |
| WALKED TO BATHROOM WITH WALKER, USED TOILET, FELL ON FLOOR DX: WEAKNESS, FALL EXAM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/21/2004 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Crutches, canes or walkers |
| ALCOHOL INTOXICATION ACUTE - 43 YOM WAS FOUND LYING ON GROUND, HAD BEEN DRINKING, BECAME AGGRESSIVE, TRYING TO HIT PEOPLE WITH HIS CANE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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