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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,735
See also: Lethal accidents, Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
Date: 12/27/2002 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
Product: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches |
MEDICS FOUND PATIENT SITTING ON COUCH AT HOME W/VOMITING, SHORTNESS OF BREATH, SHE TAKES COUMADIN. DX COAGULOPATHY DUE TO ****. |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 12/20/2002 | 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: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches |
43 YO M FOUND UNRESPONSIVE ON COUCH, EMPTY VODKA BOTTLE WITH PATIENT. D X ETOH INTOXICATION, ETOH ABUSE. |
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
Date: 12/08/2002 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
Product: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches |
PT WAS DRINKING ETOH AND GOT INTO A FIGHT WITH HIS SON. HE PASSED OUT O N THE COUCH AND HIS WIFE WAS UNABLE TO AROUSE HIM |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 11/22/2002 | Age: 18 months | Sex: Female | Race: White |
Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches |
PATIENT HAD SEIZURE, UNSURE IF FELL OFF COUCH BEFORE OR AFTER HAVING SE IZURE; SEIZURE |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 11/19/2002 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
Product: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches |
ROLLED OFF COUCH ONTO CARPETED FLOOR- DRANK 1/2 PT VODKA ETOH INTOX CHRONIC BACK PAIN |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 11/09/2002 | Age: 4 months | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
Product: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches |
4 MONTH OLD MALE FOUND ON SOFA NOT BREATHING CEASED TO BREATH |
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
Date: 11/04/2002 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
Product: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches |
MEDICS FOUND PT ON COUCH AT HOME, GOING THRU DIVORCE, OD ON 20 *** 25 M G AND 3 *** 50 MG (WHICH EXPIRED 1998). DX DRUG OVERDOSE. |
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
Date: 11/03/2002 | Age: 16 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: Anoxia |
Product: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches, Other furnaces |
CO POISONING AFTER FALLING ASLEEP ON COUCH WHERE FURNACE IS IN FLOOR OF LIVING ROOM;? FURNACE MALFUNCTION;TRANSF TO MASS EYE AND EAR,HYPERBARIC |
Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
Date: 10/22/2002 | Age: 1 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
Product: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches |
PT SLEPT ON THE COUCH AT HOME WITH FATHER WHEN FATHER WOKE UP THE CHILD WAS UNDER HIM NOT BREATHING- ANOXIA- DEAD- SUFFOCATED |
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
Date: 10/05/2002 | Age: 20 months | 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: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches |
CHILD FELL FROM COUCH YESTERDAY. VOMITING MULTIPLE TIMES. D:LETHARGY, VOMITING. ADMIT. |
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
Date: 09/08/2002 | Age: 32 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: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches |
FOUND ON SOFA AT HOME JITTERY AND ANXIOUS STATES HE HAD TAKEN RX REGLA N DX RX INTOLERATNCE |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 08/28/2002 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
Product: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches |
PT COMPLAINT OF INSULIN REACTION DID NOT EAT LUNCH FOUND UNCONSCIOUS ON COUCH, 1MG GULCOSE GIVEN IN AMBULANCE, HYPOGLYCEMIA |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 08/15/2002 | Age: 24 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: Dermat Or Conj |
Product: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches |
RASH OVER ENTIRE BODY AFTER EXPOSURE TO STRONG BUG SPRAY, ACCIDENTALLY SPRAYED ON COUCH HE WAS ON. URTICARIAL RASH 2ND TO ALLERGIC REACTION. |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 08/09/2002 | Age: 5 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
Product: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches |
INFLAMATION SECONDARY TO IMMUNIZATION-RED SWOLLEN AREA AROUND INJECTION SITE-WAS FUSSIER THAN NORMAL-ALSO HAD FALLEN OFF A COUCH |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 08/03/2002 | Age: 21 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: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches |
VERTIGO - FELL OFF COUCH |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 08/01/2002 | 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: Poisoning |
Product: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches |
C/O CHEST PAIN AND INCREASED HEARTRATE WHILE O SOFA WATCHING TV USING IV COCAINE AND HEROIN. DX: ACUTE PLEURITIC CHEST PAIN, DRUG ABU |
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
Date: 07/28/2002 | Age: 10 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: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches, Televisions |
PATIENT HAD A SEIZURE WHEN SITTING ON COUCH WATCHING TV; SEIZURE |
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
Date: 07/28/2002 | Age: 23 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: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches |
PATIENT STOOD UP FROM SITTING ON COUCH AND PASSED OUT. IS DIZZY. D: DEHYDRATION. |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 07/16/2002 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
Product: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches |
?OD. UNRESPONSIVE. PT FOUND SLEEPING ON COUCH. POSS OD. NON-WITNESSED. DX; SUBSTANCE ABUSE VS OD |
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
Date: 07/13/2002 | Age: 64 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches |
GOT UP FROM COUCH, PASSED OUT AND FELL BACK WARDS/ SYNCOPE |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 07/10/2002 | Age: 62 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches |
HAS BEEN FALLING A LOT, FELL ON COUCH AT HOME YESTERDAY. DX; BRADYCARD IA, PRE RENAL AZOTEMIA, ANEMIA. |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 07/05/2002 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attendance is not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
Product: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches |
SMOKE INHALATION- PT WAS ASLEEP ON THE COUCH WITH HER MOM AND SISTER W HEN AWAKENED BY SMOKE. NO INFO ON THE FIRE DEPT (REF #00714930) |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 07/05/2002 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attendance is not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
Product: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches |
SLEEPING ON THE COUCH WITH MOM AND SIBLING WHEN SHE WAS AWAKENED BY HEA VY SMOKE- SMOKE INHALATION NO INFO ON FIRE DEPT |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 07/05/2002 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attendance is not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
Product: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches |
PT WAS SLEEPING ON THE COUCH WITH HER KIDS. SMOKE WOKE THEM UP AND A CO USIN FOUND THE DOOR AND THEY ESCAPED. ETOH ABUSE NO FD INFO AVAILABLE |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 06/25/2002 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches |
SOB. PT STOOD UP FROM COUCH AND BECAME SHORT OF BREATH. |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 06/16/2002 | Age: 14 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: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches |
PATIENT FELL OFF COUCH HITTING LEG 2 DAYS AGO, HAVING LEG PAIN TODAY; S ICKLE CELL CRISIS, LEG PAIN |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 06/14/2002 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches |
PT STATES SHE HIT HER HEAD ON THE COUCH, NOW WITH DIZZINESSDX:DIZZINESS |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 06/09/2002 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
Product: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches |
PT FOUND UNRESPONSIVE ON THE COUCH DX DRUG OVERDOSE |
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
Date: 06/02/2002 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches |
PT SLEPT ON MOTHERS SOFA, DUST ON SOFA, PT ALLERGIC TO DUST, GOT HIVES, ALLERGIC REACTION TO DUST |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 05/20/2002 | Age: 2 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: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches, Tablet or capsule drugs |
PATIENT FOUND BEHIND COUCH WITH GREEN AND WHITE CAPLET, GAGGING UNKNOWN TYPE OF PILL, FOUND EMPTY DARVACET BOTTLE ON TV STAND, PC ***ED |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 05/17/2002 | Age: 38 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: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches |
PT COMPLAINT OF WELTS ALL OVER FROM SLEEPING ON VINYL COUCH, ALLERGIC R EACTION |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 05/03/2002 | Age: 14 months | Sex: Female | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches, Pillows |
PT WAS ON HER STOMACH ON THE COUCH WITH HER FACE FACING THE PILLOWS - P T BLUE & NOT BREATHING. D: EXPIRED (H/O BRAIN DAMAGE,DEV DELAY, HYPOT |
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
Date: 04/30/2002 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Not recorded | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attendance is not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
Product: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches |
COUCH CAUGHT ON FIRE AND WHEN HE ATTEMPTED TO PUT FIRE OUT, HE INHALED SOOT; UNKNOWN IF F.D. ATTENDED FIRE. SMOKE INHALATION $ |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 04/06/2002 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attended |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
Product: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches |
PT IN ROOM WHERE COUCH WAS FIRE/HERE WITH FIRE RESCUE, SMOKE INHALATION FIRE DEPT DID ATTEND |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 03/28/2002 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attendance is not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
Product: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches |
PUTTING OUT FIRE ON GRASS TODAY AT HOME, +9 BEERS, TOOK ***, WENT INTO A DEEP SLEEP ON COUCH . ETOH INTOX BAC 187, +BENZ.NO MENTION OF FIR |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 03/21/2002 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches |
FELL OFF COUCH DX. CVA |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 03/16/2002 | Age: 48 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: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches |
ETOH INTOXICATION-LUMBAR STRAIN-ETOH-PT FELLOFF A COUCH-HIT FLOOR |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 03/07/2002 | Age: 79 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
Product: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches |
UNRESPONSIVE AT HOME IN FETAL POSITION ON COUCH, WIFE STATES HE TOOK 6 *** OVER 24 HRS. DX OVERDOSE, ALTERED MENTAL STATUS. |
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
Date: 03/04/2002 | Age: 2 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches |
CHILD FELL OFF COUCH WHILE PLAYING WITH BROTHER - OBSERVATION IN ER ONLY |
Disposition: Held for observation |
Date: 03/04/2002 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches |
PT WAS LAYING ON COUCH WHEN HE HAD A SEIZURE |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 02/17/2002 | Age: 26 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: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches |
FELL OFF COUCH ETOH |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 02/15/2002 | Age: 80 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches |
SITTING ON COUCH AT HOME, PASSED OUT TWICE WITHOUT WARNING, UNOBSERV- ED. DX SYNCOPE. |
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
Date: 01/27/2002 | Age: 37 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: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches |
ETOH INTOXICATION-FOUND UNRESPONSIVE ON A COUCH |
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
Date: 01/02/2002 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches, Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
SOB. PT WAS SITTING ON COUCH SMOKING A CIGARETTE AND DEVELOPED PAI N AND BECAME SHORT OF BREATH. |
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
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