Accidents - Hearing aids - 50+ years old - Year 2009

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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 2,695
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Date: 12/28/2009	Age: 59 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Hearing aids
59 YO M PIECE OF HEARING AIDE BROKE AND IS STUCK IN EAR. DX FB EAR
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/19/2009	Age: 82 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Hearing aids
PATIENT HAS A PIECE OF HEARING AID IN RT EAR, CANNOT GET IT OUT. DX - FOREIGN BODY IN RT EAR
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/16/2009	Age: 75 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Hearing aids
DX OTITIS EXTERNA/HTN: 75YOM AWOKE THIE A.M. W 9/10 L EAR/L HEAD PN; PN INTERMITTENT SHOOTS UP & BACK F L EAR TO L BRIAN; HEAR'G AIDS RING'G
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/13/2009	Age: 70 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Hearing aids
70 YOM PT C/O HEARING PART IN EAR. FOREIGN BODY EAR.
Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA)

Date: 12/08/2009	Age: 90 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Hearing aids
90YOM TAKING HIS HEARING AID OUT OF HIS LEFT EAR AND A PIECE OF IT REMA INED IN EAR FB EAR
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/20/2009	Age: 86 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Hearing aids
86Y/O,M,PART OF HEARING AID STUCK IN EAR, FB R AUDITORY CANAL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/17/2009	Age: 63 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Hearing aids
DX EXTERNAL OTITIS MEDIA: L EAR ACHE SINCE LAST NOC. STARTED AS PN TO OUTER EAR, NOW PN TO INNER&OUTER EAR. WEAR'S HEAR'G AIDS, HX TINNITUS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/13/2009	Age: 57 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Hearing aids
57YOF INSERTED A HEARING AID IN LEFT EAR AND PERFORATED EAR DRUM
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/10/2009	Age: 64 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Hearing aids
REPORTS A PIECE OF HEARING AID LODGED INTO THE EARCANAL >>FB REMOVAL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/01/2009	Age: 64 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Hearing aids
LAC TO EAR CANAL, PT HAD HEARING AID IN, HAD COUGHING SPELL, TOOK AID OUT AND IT HAD BLOOD ON IT.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/25/2009	Age: 66 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Hearing aids
TIP OF HEARING AID IS STUCK IN EAR AFTER SLEEPING ON IT FOREIGN BODY EAR
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/17/2009	Age: 79 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Hearing aids
79 YOF, HEARING AID BROKE IN EAR, FOREIGN BODY EAR
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/14/2009	Age: 69 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Hearing aids
69YOF WAS TAKING HER HEARING AID OUT OF HER LT EAR,WHEN A SMALL PIECE OF THE APPLIANCE STAYED IN EAR;FOREIGN BODY REMOVAL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/13/2009	Age: 85 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Hearing aids
DX LWOBS: L EAR POSS FB: TOOK HEAR'G AID OUT LAST NOC, STATES TIP OF AID W NOT INTACT WHE TOOK IT OUT, MAYBE IN EAR.
Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA)

Date: 10/04/2009	Age: 79 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Hearing aids
DX FB IN EAR/FB REMOVAL: HEAR'G AID PLASTIC FLANGE STUCK IN R EAR CANAL SINCE LAST NOC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/03/2009	Age: 69 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Hearing aids, Beds or bedframes
PT WAS SEMI SLEEPING,PICKED UP SOMETHING ON THE BED AND SWALLOWED IT. PT THINKS IT WAS A SMALL PLASTIC PIECE FROM HEARING AID. ADMIT FOR FB*
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 09/26/2009	Age: 83 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Hearing aids
PT GOT A PIECE OF THE HEARING AID CAUGHT IN RIGHT EYE RUBBER PIECE FB E AR
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/08/2009	Age: 58 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Hearing aids
A PIECE OF SUBSTITUE HEARING AIDE STUCK IN EAR. DX. OTITIS EXTERNA.*
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/26/2009	Age: 56 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Hearing aids
HAS A *** THAT IS NOW DRAINING PUS FROM SURGICAL SITEDX WOUND INFE CTION *
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/19/2009	Age: 85 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Hearing aids
FOREIGN BODY IN LEFT EAR FROM PIECE OF HEARING AID. DX-FOREIGN BODY EAR
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/09/2009	Age: 71 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Hearing aids
HAS RUBBER PIECE FROM HEARING AID STUCK IN EAR F/B EAR
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/29/2009	Age: 84 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Hearing aids
PASSED OUT AND FELL DOWN,STRIKE EAR AND BREAKING HIS HEARING AID DX: EAR ABRASION,SYNCOPE
Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA)

Date: 07/19/2009	Age: 73 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Hearing aids
73YOF WAS TAKING HEARING AID OUT OF LT EAR A PIECE OF PLASTIC BROKE OFF ;FOREIGN BODY REMOVAL EAR
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/12/2009	Age: 71 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Hearing aids
SHE THINKS HER WAX TRAP FROM HER HEARING AID MAYBE IN HER EAR. DX: F/B TO LEFT EAR*
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/08/2009	Age: 67 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Hearing aids
GOTT HEARING AID STUCK IN EAR DX: F.B. IN EAR
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/27/2009	Age: 61 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Hearing aids
BELIEVES PART OF HEARING AID STUCK IN RT EAR; HEARING MUFFLED. DX: FB IN EAR, REMOVED
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/14/2009	Age: 53 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Hearing aids
PT GOT PIECE OF HEARING AIDE STUCK IN EAR DX;; FB (L) EAR REMOVED
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/12/2009	Age: 62 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Hearing aids
PT HAD A HEARING AID LODGE IN EAR.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/06/2009	Age: 89 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Hearing aids
HEARING AID BROKE OFF WHILE IN LT EAR DX: FB LT EAR
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/04/2009	Age: 60 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Hearing aids
DX OTITIS EXTERNA: 1D R EAR PN. PT WEARS BIL HEAR'G AIDS & HAS BEEN UNABLE TO DO SO B/C OF PN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/24/2009	Age: 79 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Hearing aids
THINKS LOST DOME TO HEARING AID AND IS STUCK IN EAR, FOREIGN BODY REMOV ED FROM EAR.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/24/2009	Age: 57 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Hearing aids
DX OTITIS EXTERNA/JOINT EFFUSION-KNEE/PROB MEDIAL MENISCUS TEAR: L EAR PN FOR A FEW D; GETS RECURRENT PN F WEAR'G HIS HEAR'G AIDS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/01/2009	Age: 61 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Hearing aids
PART OF HEARING AID STUCK IN EAR
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/06/2009	Age: 75 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Hearing aids
75 YOF HAS HEARING AIDE STUCK IN EAR F/B EAR
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/04/2009	Age: 62 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Hearing aids
HEARING AID STUCK IN EAR DX: FB EAR
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/31/2009	Age: 79 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Hearing aids
79 YO M FOREIGN BODY IN EAR PIECE OF HEARING AID STUCK IN EAR*
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/15/2009	Age: 70 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Hearing aids
PT HAS A HEARING AID IN LEFT EAR FOR ONE WEEK AND DEVELOPED AN INFECTIO N OTITIS FROM HEARING AID
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/14/2009	Age: 62 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Hearing aids
PT SUSTAINED A SMALL LACERATION TO LEFT EAR CANAL WITH A HEARING AIDE L ACERATION TO EAR CANAL
Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA)

Date: 03/06/2009	Age: 53 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Hearing aids
PT ACCIDENTLY HAD FB IN R EAR-PIECE OF HEARING AID-REMOVED IN ED
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/05/2009	Age: 84 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Hearing aids
PT GETTING FITTED FOR A HEARING AID AND THE HEARING AID SILICONE IMPRES SION MATERIAL REMAINED IN EAR FB EAR
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/03/2009	Age: 57 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Hearing aids
PT HAD A PIECE OF HER HEARING AID LODGED IN LEFT EAR UNABLE TO GET IT O UT FB EAR
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/17/2009	Age: 91 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Hearing aids, Poles
PT LOST BALANCE IN HER YARD AND FELL STRUCK HEAD ON A LAMP POST THE TOP OF THR LAMP FELL OFF INTO EAR PUSHING HER HEARING AID IN LACERATION EA
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/16/2009	Age: 95 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Hearing aids
PT HAS A HEARING AID IN LEFT EAR- EAR STARTED TO BLEED INFECTED EAR FRO M HEARING AID
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/15/2009	Age: 68 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Hearing aids
PT HAD A PIECE OF HER HEARING AID CAUGHT IN EAR FB EAR UNABLE TO GET IT OUT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/12/2009	Age: 75 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Hearing aids
HAS PAIN IN EAR, WEARS HEARING AID, HAS OTITIS EXTERNA, ACUTE OTALGIA.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/07/2009	Age: 57 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Hearing aids
PT WEARS A HEARING AID IN LEFT EAR NOW THE EAR HURTS OTITIS FROM HEARIN G AID
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/06/2009	Age: 83 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Hearing aids
PT HAS A HEARING AID AND DEVELOPED A LEFT OTITIS EXTERNA FROM THE DEVIC E
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/04/2009	Age: 74 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Hearing aids
PT HAS A HEARING AID IN LEFT EAR AND IT GOT INFECTED OTITIS EAR
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/24/2009	Age: 63 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Hearing aids
PT WITH PART OF HEARING AIDE STUCK IN EAR
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/20/2009	Age: 76 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Hearing aids
76YO WHITE MALE STS SMALL PIECE OF HEARING AID BROKE OFF IN R EAR DX FOREIGN BODY IN EAR
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/17/2009	Age: 84 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Hearing aids
PT GOT A HEARING AIR RECENTLY IN LEFT EAR NOW RED IS RED AND SWOLLEN OT ITIS FROM HEARING AID
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/14/2009	Age: 63 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Hearing aids
PT HAD A PIECE OF HEARING AID LODGED IN AN EAR.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/08/2009	Age: 61 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Hearing aids
PIECE OF HEARING AID STUCK IN EAR. DX- FOREIGN OBJECT R EAR #
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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