Accidents - Wheelchairs - Year 2009 - All Of Body

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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,590
See also: Lethal accidents, Other years, Other products, Other body parts.

Accidents - Age:

6-15 years old:	12
16-25 years old:	78
26-50 years old:	303
50+ years old:	1,196

Accidents - Sex

Accidents - Race

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records

Date: 12/31/2009	Age: 80 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Wheelchairs, Floors or flooring materials
80 YR OLD WAS AT DIALYSIS AND PASSED OUT AND SLID OUT OF WHEELCHAIR ONTO FLOOR DX: SYNCOPE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/18/2009	Age: 54 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: Wheelchairs
FELL FORWARD OUT OF WHEELCHAIR AND UNABLE TO GET UP AND WANTS TO BE CHE CK,NO INJ FOUND
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/17/2009	Age: 69 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Wheelchairs
69YOM FELL FROM WHEELCHAIR, SLID OUT OF CHAIR ONTO BUTTOCKS, HAS HEAD, HIP PAIN , BLOOD SUGAR 64, INSULIN RX DX;HYPOGLYCEMIA, INSULIN RX
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/10/2009	Age: 51 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Street or highway		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Wheelchairs
HOMELESS 51YOM FELL BACKWARDS OUT OF WHEELCHAIR IN STREET C/O BACK PAIN.DX: ALCOHOL INTOXICATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/07/2009	Age: 58 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Wheelchairs, Chairs
SENT IN FROM ECF FOR EVAL OF ALTERED MENTAL STATUS AFTER SLID OUT OF A WHEELCHAIR VS A CHAIR>>POST ICTAL SZ
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/24/2009	Age: 78 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: Wheelchairs
FELL OUT OF WHEELCHAIR BECAME UNRESPONSIVE AND HAD A CVA
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 11/18/2009	Age: 48 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Wheelchairs
48 YO M WHEELCHAIR BOUND PT FOUND ON FLOOR CONFUSED. ?FALL. RELIANT ONO PIATE MEDS. RESPONDED TO ***. DX: AMS, OPIATE OVERDOSE. ADMIT.
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 11/15/2009	Age: 73 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Wheelchairs
IN A BAR INTOXICATED AND UNABLE TO OPERATE HIS MOTORIZED WHEELCHAIR,DEV ELOPED SHORT OF BREATH,COPD
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/29/2009	Age: 57 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: Wheelchairs, Beds or bedframes
TRANSFERRING FROM WHEELCHAIR TO BED BECAME UNRESPONSIVE AND UNSURE IF S YNCOPAL EPISODE VS SEIZURE
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 10/18/2009	Age: 87 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Wheelchairs, Toilets
PT FELL FROM WHEELCHAIR ATTEMPTING TO GET ON TOILET AT NURSING HOME, MULTIPLE CONTUSIONS, ADMITTED
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 10/12/2009	Age: 82 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Wheelchairs
NH RESIDENT STOOD UP FROM WHEELCHAIR, BECAME DIZZY AND FELL. CONTUSION FORHEAD/NOSE. NOTED TO HAVE HYPOTENSION, SO *, , ** STOP
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/02/2009	Age: 78 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Wheelchairs, Floors or flooring materials
78 YOM MENTAL STATUS CHANGES FELL FROM WHEEL CHAIR TO FLOOR UNWITNESSED AT NURSING HOME, PT ADMITTED*
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 09/25/2009	Age: 87 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Wheelchairs
87 YO F CHANGE IN MENTAL STATUS FELL FROM WHEELCHAIR AT NURSING HOME PT ADMITTED*
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 09/22/2009	Age: 76 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Wheelchairs, Floors or flooring materials
PT HAD SEIZURE(EPILEPSEY), FELL OUT OF WHEELCHAIR, HIT FLOOR, DX SEIZUR E DISORDER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/24/2009	Age: 59 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: Wheelchairs
PT WAS OUTSIDE WHEELING ERSELF AROUND IN THE HOT SUN IN A WHEELCHAIR AN D PASSED OUT TREATED FOR SYNCOPE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/20/2009	Age: 61 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: Wheelchairs
TOOK HIS NPH INSULIN&SLID OUT OF THE WHEELCHAIR TRYING TO GET TO THE FO OD THEN STARTED FEELING SHAKY, BS=58>>HYPOGLYCEMIA
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/17/2009	Age: 83 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: Wheelchairs, Toilets
PT FELL WHILE GETTING OFF COMMODE TO TRANSFER TO WHEELCHAIR THAT SLIPPE D FROM UNDER HER, DX FALL, R/O STROKE
Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital

Date: 08/15/2009	Age: 68 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Wheelchairs
PT WAS RUNNING ERRANDS IN THE HOT SUN IN A WHEELCHAIR OVEREXERTED HERSE LF TRYING TO GET AROUND IN THE WHEELCHAIR PASSED OUT SYNCOPE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/14/2009	Age: 57 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: Poisoning
Product: Wheelchairs
PT WAS IN A WHEELCHAIR, BEGAN SHAKING, POSS HAD SEIZURE, HAD BEEN DRINK ING ETOH
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/08/2009	Age: 79 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: Wheelchairs
SITTING IN WHEELCHAIR AND SYNCOPIZED,ADMITTED
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 08/01/2009	Age: 74 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Street or highway		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Wheelchairs
PT PUSHING WIFE IN STREET IN WHEELCHAIR FOR 2 MILES PASSED OUT DX// HEAT EXHAUTSION
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 07/21/2009	Age: 54 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Wheelchairs
PT FELL OUT OF WHEEL CHAIR DURING HYPOGLYCEMIC EPISODE DX- HYPOGLYCEM IA KNEE CONT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/16/2009	Age: 18 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Street or highway		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Wheelchairs
PT IN WHEELCHAIR IN BUS MVC PT HAS MR HAS NO APPARENT INJURY DX/ MVC NO INJURY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/26/2009	Age: 78 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: Wheelchairs
IN WHEELCHAIR,LOST CONSCIOUSNESS AND FELL OUT OF IT SYNCOPYZING AND WEN T INTO CARDIAC ARREST BROUGHT BACK THEN SENT TO CATH LAB
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 06/25/2009	Age: 47 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: Wheelchairs
FELL OVER IN WHEELCHAIR STRIKING HEAD WITH LOC,PAIN AND WEAKNESS ALL OV ER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/24/2009	Age: 65 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: Wheelchairs, Beds or bedframes
AMPUTEE TRANSFERRING FROM WHEELCHAIR TO BED AND FELL RESULTING FROM DIZ ZINESS AND RENAL FAILURE
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 06/18/2009	Age: 51 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Wheelchairs
PT, WELL KNOWN TO ER. IS ALCOHOLIC WHO FALLS OUT OF WHEELCHAIR. THIS WA S CASE TODAY & PT BROUGHT TO ER. DX:ACUTE ETOH INTOXICATION.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/14/2009	Age: 51 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Street or highway		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Wheelchairs
PT + ETOH BAL 334 HAD A SEIZURE FELL OUT OF WHEELCHAIR NO INJURY ON STR EET DX/ ALCOHOL INTOXICATION SEIZURE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/14/2009	Age: 41 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Wheelchairs
PT WAS DRINKING AND FELL OUT OF WHEELCHAIR DX; ACUTE ETOH INTOX
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/14/2009	Age: 51 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Wheelchairs
PT FOUND DOWN IN PARK AFTER FALL FROM WHEELCHAIR. +ETOH. HAS HAD MULTIP LE FALLS FROM WHEELCHAIR. D:ETOH INTOXICATION, FALL FROM WHEELCHAIR
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/12/2009	Age: 44 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Street or highway		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Wheelchairs
^PT MR IN WHEELCHAIR IN VAN TIPPED OVER WHILE VAN WAS MOVINGDX// FALL N O INJURY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/24/2009	Age: 14 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Wheelchairs
H/O MD, FELL FROM WHEELCHAIR EARLIER IN DAY, NO LOC, HAD LEG PAIN, DAD WOKE TO PT FOAMING AT MOUTH, "BROWN STUFF" OVER FACE; CARDIAC ARREST
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead

Date: 05/16/2009	Age: 62 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Wheelchairs
MULTIPLE CONTUSIONS.PT WAS STUCK BY AN ELECTRIC WHEELCHAIR.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/15/2009	Age: 76 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Wheelchairs, Bathtubs or showers
PT TRYING TO TRANSFER SELF FROM THE WHEELCHAIR TO THE SHOWER AND FELL WEDGED SELF IN BETWEEN THE TWO FOR A DAY CPK 8,000 RHABDOMYOLYSIS
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 05/15/2009	Age: 12 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Wheelchairs
WHEELCHAIR BOUND PATIENT ON SCHOOL FIELD TRIP AT ZOO ALL DAY IN HEAT, B ACK ON BUS & FELL TO GROUND, PROJECTILE VOMITING, CONFUSION; FEVER/HEAT
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 05/12/2009	Age: 71 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Wheelchairs, Floors or flooring materials
WEAKNESS-FELL FROM WHEELCHAIR TO THE FLOOR-@ HOME
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 05/11/2009	Age: 56 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Street or highway		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Wheelchairs
PT FELL OUT OF WHEELCHAIR WHILE CROSSING THE STREET, +ALCOHOL DX - ALCOHOL INTOXICATION, NO INJURIES
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/21/2009	Age: 77 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Wheelchairs
PT FELL FROM WHEELCHAIR AT NURSING HOME, HIT HEAD,-CARDIAC ARREST
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead

Date: 04/21/2009	Age: 49 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Wheelchairs, Floors or flooring materials
FELL OUT WHEELCHAIR FELL ONFLOOR SEIZURE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/05/2009	Age: 80 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Wheelchairs
SENT IN FROM ECF FOR WITNESSED FALL FROM WHEELCHAIR, REPORTEDLY *** DOS E RECENTLY INCREASED, NO AGITATED>>NECK/BACK PAIN S/P FALL/AGITATI
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 04/03/2009	Age: 45 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Wheelchairs
HOMELESS MAN FOUND OUTSIDE UNRESPONSIVE IN HIS WHEELCHAIR IN RESPIRATOR Y ARREST,INTUBATED AND BROUGHT AROUND
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 04/01/2009	Age: 83 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: Wheelchairs, Chairs
DX SYNCOPE/CHEST WALL PAIN/UTI: FELL OUT OF WHEELCHAIRS @ HOME AFTER FALL'G ASLEEP; HIT ANOTHER CHAIR, TWIST'G & LANDED ON RS. PN ANK/PECTOR
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 03/13/2009	Age: 69 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Wheelchairs
PT FELL OUT OF WHEELCHAIR, + ETOH DX; FALL ETOH INTOXICATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/10/2009	Age: 22 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Wheelchairs
PT SITTING IN WHEELCHAIR AND BENT OVER TO PET A DOG AND ALMOST PASSED O UT TREATED FOR SYNCOPE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/07/2009	Age: 50 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Wheelchairs, Floors or flooring materials
PT C/O LOW BACK PAIN S/P FALLING TWICE OUT OF WHEELCHAIR AND HITTING FL OOR. +ETOH. LPTMS.
Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA)

Date: 02/18/2009	Age: 52 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: Poisoning
Product: Wheelchairs
PT WAS ROLLING IN WHEELCHAIR AND FELT HEART STOP ADMITS TO HAVING A QUI TE A BIT OF ALCOHOL-ALCOHOL INTOXICATION
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 02/15/2009	Age: 56 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Wheelchairs
PT WAS FOUND IN A STORE BATHROOM ON THE GROUND, WAS TRANSFERRING FROM WHEELCHAIR TO TOILET, +ETOH. DX-ALCOHOL INTOXICATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/19/2009	Age: 53 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: Wheelchairs
PT FELL FROM WHEELCHAIR, HIT ELBOW, DX DIZZINESS/WEAKNESS, HX BRAIN SUR GERY
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 01/12/2009	Age: 85 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Wheelchairs
EMS FOUND PT IN A CHEELCHAIR AT NH, SHE HAD SLUMPED DOWN IN CHAIR AND B ELT WAS AROUND NECK, SAT PT UP ON WHEELCHAIR & REMOVED BELT. DX. SYNCOP
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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