Accidents - Wheelchairs - 26-50 years old - Year 2002 - Lower Leg

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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,231
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Date: 12/26/2002	Age: 42 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Wheelchairs, Beds
FRACTURE LOWER LEG - PATIENT PRSENTS AFTER FALLING WHEN TRANSFERRING FR OM WHEELCHAIR TO BED AT HOME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/21/2002	Age: 39 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Wheelchairs
39 Y/O M C/O R LEG INJURY. PT FELL OUT OF WHEELCHAIR. DX FRAC TO R TIBI A AND FIBULA PROXIMAL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/18/2002	Age: 35 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Wheelchairs
WHEELCHAIR BOUND PATIENT CARETAKE STS LEG PAIN LEFT TIBIAL FRACTURE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/04/2002	Age: 36 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Wheelchairs, Floors or flooring materials
PT FELL OUT OF WHEELCHAIR ONTO CONCRETE FLOOR. DX: R HIP CONT, R KNEE PX, R TIB FX.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/28/2002	Age: 45 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Wheelchairs
PT HAS LEG/SIDE SPASMS AFTER WHEELCHAIR ADJUSTMENT. D:LEG SPASM AND PAI N, IMPROPER FITTING WHEELCHAIR.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/27/2002	Age: 38 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Wheelchairs
38 YO MALE RAN INTO CAR WITH WHEELCHAIR LAST NIGHT LACERATION LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/23/2002	Age: 45 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Wheelchairs
FELL OUT OF WHEELCHAIR AND LEG CAUGHT IN ITS WHEELS AND SPRAINED AND CO NTUSED LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/22/2002	Age: 43 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Wheelchairs
DX: L LEG CELLULITIS. RAN OVER TOES WITH WHEELCHAIR 2 DAYS AGO
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 10/04/2002	Age: 49 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Wheelchairs
PARAPALEGIC FELL OUT OF WHEELCHAIR, HEARD IT CRACK. DX. FX R DISTAL F IBULA/TIBIA.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/30/2002	Age: 27 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Street or highway		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Wheelchairs
PATIENT IN WHEELCHAIR WHEN BUMPED BY CAR WHILE CROSSING STREET. D: TIBIA ABRASION.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/28/2002	Age: 39 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Wheelchairs
39 Y/O M C/O LOWER EXTREMITY SWELLING FELL OUT OF WHEELCHAIR. DX: FRACTURE TIBIA DISTAL, FIBULA DISTAL.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/12/2002	Age: 35 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Wheelchairs
FELL FROM WHEELCHAIR DX. LOWER LEG FX
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/26/2002	Age: 31 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Street or highway		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Wheelchairs
WHEELCHAIR BOUND PATIENT ON BUS WHEN BUS LURCHED FORWARD AND WHEELCHAIR RAMMED INTO SEAT IN FRONT. D:ECCHYMOSIS, SHIN; OSTEOPENIA.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/23/2002	Age: 31 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Wheelchairs
LEFT LOWER LEG FX-PT REPORTEDLY TWISTED LEFT LOWER LEG WHILE IN HIS WHE ELCHAIR. C/O SEVERE PAIN TO LEFT LEG.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/23/2002	Age: 42 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Wheelchairs
FELL OUT OF WHEELCHAIR RIGHT LOWER LEG ABRASION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/19/2002	Age: 50 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Wheelchairs
FELL FROM WHEELCHAIR-CONTUSION LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/17/2002	Age: 49 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Wheelchairs
49 Y/O M C/O LEFT ANKLE FEL OUT OF MOTORIZED WHEELCHAIR. DX: FRACTURE LEFT TIBIA DISTAL FIBULA DISTAL.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/12/2002	Age: 34 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Wheelchairs
FRACTURE TIBIA CLOSED - TRYING TO GET OUT OF CAR INTO WHEELCHAIR, PARAP LEGIC, AND FELL INJURING RIGHT LOWER LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/24/2002	Age: 46 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Hematoma
Product: Wheelchairs
AN ELECTRIC WHEELCHAIR FELL ON PATIENT'S LOWER LEFT LEG AND FOOT.DX-ACU TE CONTUSION, HEMATOMA LOWER LEG.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/24/2002	Age: 50 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Wheelchairs
HIT LEG ON WHEELCHAIR DX. CALF CONT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/07/2002	Age: 44 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Wheelchairs
FELL FROM WHEELCHAIR DX. TIBIA FX
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/31/2002	Age: 41 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Street or highway		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Wheelchairs
PT DX FX RT TIB/FIB - HIT BY A CAR WHILE SITTING IN WHEELCHAIR.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/27/2002	Age: 35 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Wheelchairs
PATIENT FELL OUT OF HER WHEELCHAIR AT HOME. DX-ACUTE CONTUSIONS,ABRASIO NS DISTAL TIB.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/15/2002	Age: 40 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Wheelchairs
PT MOTORIZED WHEELCHAIR FLIPPED OVER PT INJURED LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/12/2002	Age: 39 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Wheelchairs
DISTAL TIBIA FX - CAUGHT FOOT ON WHEELCHAIR WHILE TRANSFERRING FROM WHE ELCHAIR
Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital

Date: 05/08/2002	Age: 47 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Wheelchairs
47 Y/O F C/O FALL - BUMPED INTO WHEELCHAIR. DX: CONTUSION LEFT LEG.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/20/2002	Age: 44 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Wheelchairs, Elevators or other lifts
CONTUSION (L)R) LWR LEGS, PT SUST INJURY WITH THE ELEVATOR DOORWHILE ON HIS WHEELCHAIR AT HIS BUILDING, C/O PAIN.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/29/2002	Age: 41 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Wheelchairs
PT DX SMALL ABRASION TO LT LEG - S/P FALL FROM WHELCHAIR TODAY.PT WAS RIDING WHEELCHAIR TOO FAST.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/14/2002	Age: 45 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Wheelchairs
45 Y.O. W FEMALE W/LEG CONTUSION. PT INJ SELF ON WHEEL CHAIR. E9179
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/11/2002	Age: 39 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Street or highway		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Wheelchairs
IN WHEELCHAIR HIT BY CAR. DX: TIB/FIB FX
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 02/08/2002	Age: 41 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Wheelchairs
PT FELL OUT OF WHEELCHAIR AT HOME, R LEG PAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/06/2002	Age: 37 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Wheelchairs
PT AT HOME SITTING IN THE WHEELCHAIR WHEN HIS UNCLE GOT UP AND FEL L ONTO RIGHT LOWER LEG CONTUSION LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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