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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,198
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/31/2007 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Concussion |
| Product: Medical equipment, general, Tables |
| HYDROCEPHALUS/SHUNT PT NOT ACTING RIGHT, HIT HEAD ON COFFEE TABLE 1 WEE K AGO, RESOLVING FOREHEAD CONTUSION; MOST LIKELY POST CONCUSSIVE SYMTS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/21/2007 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Medical equipment, general, Radiators |
| H/O BATTENS DISEASE, FELL OUT OF HOSPITAL BED ONTO CARPETED SURFACE AT HOME AND HIT HEAD ON RADIATOR, NO LOC; SCALP LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/11/2007 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Medical equipment, general, Floors or flooring materials |
| VP SHUNT PATIENT WITH H/O SEIZURES, HAVING TYPICAL SEIZURE AT SCHOOL, F ELL DOWN DURING ICTAL PERIOD HITTING HEAD ON ON FLOOR; HEAD INJ, SEIZUR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/05/2007 | Age: 77 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Hematoma |
| Product: Medical equipment, general, Ceilings and walls |
| PT TRIPPED AND FELL OVER HUSBANDS PROSTHESIS AND HIT BACK OF HEAD ON WALL DX: HEAD HEMATOMA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/26/2007 | Age: 63 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Medical equipment, general, Desks, chests, bureaus or buffets |
| CLOSED HEAD INJURY - 63 YO MALE PRESENTS FROM HOME VIA AMBULANCE - FELL 4' FROM *** LIFT STRIKING HEAD ON A DRESSER THEN FLOOR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/24/2007 | Age: 93 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Medical equipment, general, Floors or flooring materials |
| PATIENT FELL FROM THE BED ONTO THE FLOOR AT THE NURSING HOME. DX-LACERATION SCALP. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/22/2007 | Age: 96 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Medical equipment, general, Desks, chests, bureaus or buffets |
| PATIENT SLIPPED FROM HER BED IN THE NURSING HOME HITTING HER HEAD ON TH E DRESSER DX LACERATION TO ANTERIOR SCALP AND CONTUSIONS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/20/2007 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Concussion |
| Product: Medical equipment, general, Floors or flooring materials |
| H/O IDDM/INSULIN PUMP,DAD HEARD CRASH/FOUND PT ON BASEMENT FLOOR AT STA IRS CONFUSED,BS 40;POSS HYPOGLYCEMIA CAUSED FALL LEADING TO CONCUSSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/26/2007 | Age: 92 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Medical equipment, general, Floors or flooring materials |
| FACIAL TRAUMA W/2 CM EYEBROW LAC;HEAD INJ;L SHOULDER PAIN R/O FX: SLEEPING,FELL OUT OF HOSP. BED FACE FIRST,HITTING HEAD,FOUND ON FLOOR |
| Disposition: Held for observation |
| Date: 10/20/2007 | Age: 62 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Medical equipment, general, Ceilings and walls |
| 62 YOF TRIPPED OVER HOSPITAL BED AT HOME; HIT HEAD ON WALL. LACERATION OF HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/13/2007 | Age: 96 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Medical equipment, general, Floors or flooring materials |
| ACUTE EXTRAAXIAL HEMORRHAGE R CEREBRAL HEMISPHERE;FACIAL LAC. S/P FALL: GETTING FROM HOSPITAL BED TO BEDSIDE COMMODE,FALL, HIT HEAD ON FLOOR |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 09/16/2007 | Age: 5 months | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Medical equipment, general, Floors or flooring materials |
| 5 MO OLD FEMALE WAS IN THE ED, BEING SEEN FOR DIARRHEA, WHEN PT FELL OFF THE PRAM, ROLLED ONTO THE FLOOR. DX; CHI, DIARRHEA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/15/2007 | Age: 67 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Medical equipment, general, Cords, electrical |
| PATIENT TRIPPED ON CORD TO OXYGEN AND FELL AT NURSING HOME DX; 4 CM L ACERATION TO HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/15/2007 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Medical equipment, general, Floors or flooring materials |
| H/O HYDROCEPHALUS, C VPS IN PLACE, C/O SOF SZ, FELL TO THE FLR >> R/O VPS MALFUNCTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/11/2007 | Age: 85 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Medical equipment, general, Floors or flooring materials |
| PATIENT FELL OUT OF BED ONTO THE FLOOR AT THE NURSING HOME. DX-CHI, HEMATOMA FOREHEAD. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/06/2007 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Medical equipment, general, Beds or bedframes |
| PT PARAPELGIC TRYING TO REPOSTION SELF IN BED AND TRAPEZE FELL ON PT DX// SCALP CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/04/2007 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Medical equipment, general, Ceilings and walls |
| PT STATES GETTING USED TO NEW PROSTHETIC LEG AND FELL AT HOME AND HIT HEAD ON WALL DX:SCALP AB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/22/2007 | Age: 58 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Medical equipment, general, Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| PT WAS BURNED WHILE SMOKING W/NASAL CANNULA OXYGEN RUNNING. DX: SCALP BURN |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 08/13/2007 | Age: 89 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Medical equipment, general, Floors or flooring materials |
| S/P FALL R/O SMALL INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGE VS ARTIFACT: FELL FROM HOSPITAL BED, HIT HEAD ON TILED FLOOR, NO L.O.C. |
| Disposition: Held for observation |
| Date: 08/01/2007 | Age: 9 months | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Medical equipment, general, Floors or flooring materials |
| @ MD OFF, FELL OFF EXAM TABLE HITTING HEAD ONTO TILE FLR " CHI" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/12/2007 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Medical equipment, general, Monkey bars, playground gyms or other playground climbing apparatus |
| PATIENT FELL OFF MONKEY BARS, HIT BACK OF HEAD, VP HAS SHUNT, NOW HAS H EADACHE; LEFT WITHOUT BEING SEEN |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 07/01/2007 | Age: 82 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Medical equipment, general, Tables |
| PT IN A HOSPITAL BED AT THE NURSING HOME AND CLIMED OVER THE SIDE RAILS LANDING ON THE BED SIDE TABLE SUSTAINED A CLOSED HEAD INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/11/2007 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Medical equipment, general, Stairs or steps |
| H/O SPINA BIFIDA & VP SHUNT, C/O LOW BACK PAIN W/URINATION & INTERMITTE NT HA, ALSO SLIDES DOWN STAIRS ON BACK;SHUNT MALFUNCTION, LOW BACK PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 05/24/2007 | Age: 85 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Medical equipment, general, Floors or flooring materials |
| PATIENT FELL OUT OF THE BED AT THE NURSING HOME ONTO THE FLOOR. DX-CONTUSION HED, ABRASIONS HEAD. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/13/2007 | Age: 83 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Medical equipment, general, Floors or flooring materials |
| LACERATES SCALP WHEN TRIPPED OVER OXYGEN TUBING AND FELL TO FLOOR. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/17/2007 | Age: 10 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Medical equipment, general, Floors or flooring materials |
| PATIENT FELL OFF EXAM TABLE AT DOCTOR'S OFFICE, LANDED FACE FIRST ON HA RD FLOOR, NOSE BLEED, NO LOC; HEAD INJURY, FOREHEAD CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/11/2007 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Medical equipment, general, Beds or bedframes |
| 56 YOM BEING LIFTED OUT OF BED BY *** LIFT, LIFT BROKE AND PATIENT FELL , STRIKING HEAD ON BED - CONTUSED HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/23/2007 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Medical equipment, general, Coaxial Cable |
| WEARING HALO D/T PREVIOUS C2 FX, ROUGH ON HALO BEING VERY ACTIVE,TRIPPE ON CABLE CORD,HIT FRONT OF HALO ON WOOD FLOOR, DRIED BLOOD AT PINS;ABRA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/18/2007 | Age: 83 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Medical equipment, general, Ceilings and walls |
| SUBDURAL HEMATOMA: GETTING OUT OF RECLINER, FELL ON 0XYGEN TANK HITTING JAW ON TANK , FELL ON FOOT STOOL, HIT WALL WITH SIDE OF HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 03/15/2007 | Age: 3 months | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Medical equipment, general, Floors or flooring materials |
| PT FELL FROM EXAM TABLE AT DR'S OFFICE, LANDING ON HARD FLOOR- STUNNED FOR 10 SECONDS. DX: LT PARIETAL SKULL FRACTURE, SAH |
| Disposition: Held for observation |
| Date: 02/12/2007 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Medical equipment, general, Beds or bedframes |
| PT IN JAIL WITH A HALO TRACTION DEVICE FELL OUT OF BED TO THE FLOOR STR IKING THE DEVICE AND DISLOCATED THE BOLTS FROM HER SKULL |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 02/10/2007 | 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: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Medical equipment, general, Floors or flooring materials |
| PT FELL OUT OF *** LIFT ONTO HARD FLOOR AT NURSING HOMEDX// FALL HEAD C ONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 01/23/2007 | Age: 100 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Hematoma |
| Product: Medical equipment, general, Floors or flooring materials |
| HEAD HEMATOMA-100 Y/O FEMALE PT ROLLED OUT OF BED-HIT FLOOR-@ NURSING HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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