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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 773
See also: Lethal accidents, Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 11/30/2008 | Age: 15 months | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| S/P SLIPPING UNDER THE WATER IN THE BATHTUB FOR 10 SECONDS WITH BREATHI NG IN BATH WATER. SUBMERGED IN WATER FOR 10 SECS. NO EVIDENCE OF DROW |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/19/2008 | Age: 14 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| TAKE BATH WITH SIBLING, MOM STEPPED OUT, CAME BACK FOUND PT UNDERWATER, DX; NEAR DROWNING LWOT |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 11/04/2008 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| RASH ALL OVER THE BODY AFTER SHOWER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/29/2008 | Age: 12 months | 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: Submersion |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| DX BRIEF WATER SUMERSION W/O ASPIRATION: 1YOM TAK'G BATH W 3YO BROTHER W MOM TURNED AROUND THEN BACK (A SEC) & PT W UNDERWATER MOV'G |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/22/2008 | Age: 9 months | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| MOM GIVING PT A BATH WITH 2 YO SIBLING, LEFT BATHROOM 2-3 MIN, CAME BAC K TO PT UNDERWATER NOT BREATHING; SUBMERSION INJURY |
| Disposition: Held for observation |
| Date: 09/18/2008 | Age: 8 months | 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: Submersion |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| REPORTEDLY FOUND BY MOM VERSUS DAD UNRESPONSIVE IN THE BATHTUB, CPR WAS PREFORMED, +PULSES>> NEAR DROWNING |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 08/18/2008 | Age: 3 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: Bathtubs or showers |
| PATIENT GOT OUT OF SHOWER, WALKED INTO ROOM AND FAINTED; BLACKOUT SPELL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/14/2008 | Age: 18 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| PT WAS IN BATHTUB, MOM TURNED AROUND & HEARD CHILD CHOKING, FOUND PT WITH FACE WET WITH WATER. DX - NEAR DROWNING EPISODE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/06/2008 | Age: 10 months | 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: Submersion |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| PT'S BROTHER FILLED TUB AND MOM FOUND PT IN TUB. DX: POTENTIAL NEAR DROWNING. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/29/2008 | Age: 12 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| PATIENT LEFT ALONG IN BATHTUB WITH 2 SIBLINGS, FOUND UNDER WATER, BLUE, UNRESPONSIVE, PULLED FROM WATER DAD GAVE CPR; NEAR DROWNING |
| Disposition: Held for observation |
| Date: 07/10/2008 | Age: 2 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: Submersion |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| PT FOUND FACE DOWN IN BATHTUB. MOM TUNRED AWAY FOR A MINUTE. GIVEN CPR AND SPIT OUT WATER. NOW RESPON. MAY HAVE HAD SZ. DX NEAR DROWING |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 07/09/2008 | Age: 9 months | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| FOUND IN BATHTUB BY PARENTS, UNRESPONSIVE DX; DROWNING |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 07/08/2008 | Age: 9 months | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| PATIENT BECAME SUBMERGED UNDER WATER IN HER BATHTUB, MOM LEFT TO AN- SWER PHONE AND PT WENT UNDER WATER. DX-NEAR DROWNING/SUBMERSION |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 06/29/2008 | Age: 19 months | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| PATIENT LEFT UNATTENDED IN BATHTUB WITH WATER RUNNING, FATHER RETURNED TO PT UNDER WATER, HAD A SEIZURE, REMOVED, SPITTING UP WATER; NEAR DROW |
| Disposition: Held for observation |
| Date: 06/26/2008 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| PATIENT IN BATHTUB WHEN SLIPPED UNDER WATER, AUNT SITTING ON TOILET AND GRABBED HIM OUT OF WATER, APPEARED STUNNED, COUGH OUT WATER;SUBMERSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/26/2008 | Age: 14 months | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| MOM'S BOYFRIEND WAS GIVING HER A BATH, & HE LEFT THE ROOM FOR A MOMENT, HEARD GURGLING NOISES, PT WAS UNDER WATER. DX: NEAR DROWNING IN TUB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/10/2008 | Age: 13 months | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| DAD LEFT PT IN THE TUB X 10 MINUTES (DAD THOUGHT PT WAS BEING WATCHED B Y NEPHEW) - PT WAS FOUND LAYING FACE DOWN IN TUB. D: SUBMERSION INJR |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 06/09/2008 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| PATIENT WAS GIVEN A BATH BY THE GRANDMOTHER, LEFT HIM FOR 3 MIN., CAME BACK, HE WAS FACE DOWN IN THE WATER. DX-DROWNING |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 05/21/2008 | Age: 1 months | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| MOM WAS GOING TO GIVE PT, & HIS 2 YO SISTER A BATH FILLED TUB,AT HOME, SHE LEFT THE ROOM, SIS PUT PT IN TUB, FOUND UNDER WATER. DX:NEAR DROWNI |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 05/17/2008 | Age: 2 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: Bathtubs or showers, General purpose household cleaners |
| PTS FATHER CLEANED THE BATHTUIB WITH *** AND CHILD WENT INTO TUB TO TAK E BATH AND GOT SICK POISONING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/07/2008 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| PLAYING IN BATHTUB WITH BROTHER,MOM HEARD YELL FOR HELP NEAR DROWNING * |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/07/2008 | Age: 8 months | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Burns, Scald |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers, Hot water |
| MOM PUT 8 MONTH OLD FEMALE IN BATHTUB OF HOT WATER 30% BODY SURFACE BURNS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/03/2008 | Age: 19 months | 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: Bathtubs or showers |
| IN THE TUB, STARTED SHAKING & LIPS TURNED BLUE >>FEBRILE SEIZURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/29/2008 | Age: 3 months | 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: Bathtubs or showers |
| MOM UNDRESSED HIM TO GIVE HIM A BATH, EXTERMITIES STARTED SHAKING&FACE TRUNED BLUE >> SHIVERING/SEIZURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/07/2008 | Age: 12 months | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| PATIENT FOUND IN A BATHTUB FULL OF WATER AT HOME WAS KICKING, MOM DRIED HIM OFF BEFORE BRING HIM TO ER. DX-NEAR DROWNING. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/24/2008 | 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: Bathtubs or showers |
| PATIENT IN BATHTUB, MOM DRAINED ALL WATER AND WENT TO PICK HIM UP WHEN HE WAS LIMP, STARING AT MOM WITH BLANK STARE; SEIZURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/24/2008 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| FOUND IN BATHTUB BY PARENT ASPHYXIATIION DROWNING CARDIAC ARREST |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 03/16/2008 | Age: 4 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: Submersion |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| PT IN THE BATHTUB MOTHER LEFT HER FOR A MINUTE WHEN SHE CAME BACK CHILD SUBMERGED UNDER THE WATER NEAR DROWNING- HAD A SEIZURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/06/2008 | Age: 14 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| CARDIAC ARREST-NEAR DROWNING IN BATHTUB-FOUND FLOATING FACE DOWN-IN TUB W/ 2 YEAR OLD SISTER-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 03/02/2008 | Age: 14 months | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| SIBLING FOUND HOLDING CHILD UNDER WATER IN BATHTUB;DX NEAR DROWNING.NON ICU ADMISSION; CPR DONE |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 02/29/2008 | Age: 2 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: Submersion |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| DX NEAR-DROWNING: PT WAS IN BATH TUB WHILE MOM CLEANING KITCH, MOM HEARD THUMP, FOUND CHILD FACE DOWN SUBMERGED UNDERWATER BLUE APPEAR'G |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 02/22/2008 | Age: 15 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| PATIENT IN BATHTUB AT HOME, MOM WALKED TO GET TOWEL, CAME BACK TO PT UN DER WATER NOT BREATHING, BLUE, PROJECTILE VOMITING; SUBMERSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/31/2008 | Age: 4 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: Bathtubs or showers, Ceilings and walls |
| FAINTED IN THE SHOWER,FOREHEAD HIT WALL AND THEN MOM CAUGHT HER--SYNCOP AL EPISODE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/12/2008 | Age: 14 months | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| NEAR DROWNING IN BATHTUB, DAD LEFT ROOM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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