Accidents - Rope or string - 0-5 years old - Year 2002

Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 920
See also: Lethal accidents, Other years, Other age groups, Other products.

Accidents - Sex

Accidents - Race

Accidents - Body Parts:

Head:	190	Neck:	144
Pubic Region:	136	Mouth:	107
Lower Trunk:	80	Toe:	75
All Of Body:	68	Internal:	60
Foot:	15	Lower Arm:	11
Finger:	11	Wrist:	5
Lower Leg:	5	Face:	5

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records

Date: 12/29/2002	Age: 5 years	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Rope or string
CHI WHEN FELL SWINGING ON ROPE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/07/2002	Age: 5 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Mouth		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Rope or string
SPINNING A LASSO WHEN HE HIT HIS LIP SUSTAINING A LAC. NO LOC. NO VOMIT ING. DX.LAC FILTRUM.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/19/2002	Age: 3 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Rope or string
3 YO WITH STRINGS HANGING FROM RECTUM F.B. ANUS/CONSTIPATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/11/2002	Age: 5 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Mouth		Diagnosis: Dental Injury
Product: Rope or string
PT HAD ROPE IN MOUTH PLAYING TUG OF WAR AND IT WAS PULLED OUT. DX: GUM LAC, TOOTH EXTRACTED, TOOTH MISALIGNED.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/10/2002	Age: 4 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Pubic Region		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Rope or string
PLAYING TUG OF WAR WITH ROPE (WITH DOG) PENILE BRUISING
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/09/2002	Age: 2 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Foot		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Rope or string
RT FOOT SPRAIN-AT HOME-INJURED ON A ROPE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/25/2002	Age: 5 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Mouth		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Rope or string
LIP LAC-AT GRANDPARENT'S-PLAYING TUG OF WAR W/ A ROPE W/ DOG-DOG NIPPED PT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/20/2002	Age: 22 months	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Rope or string
STRING IN RECTUM DX: PATIENT LEFT BEFORE EVALUATION- STRING PULLED OUT IN TRIAGE
Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA)

Date: 10/12/2002	Age: 3 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Rope or string
PT. STUCK STRING UP HER NOSE DX: NASAL FOREIGN BODY- REMOVED
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/05/2002	Age: 3 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Rope or string
F.B. RECTAL AREA, MOTHER STS PT SWALLOWED A PIECE OF STRING, WHICH ITHA NGING IN HIS RECTUM, C/O PAIN WHEN PULLED OUT, NO ACTIVE BLEEDING.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/01/2002	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: Fracture
Product: Rope or string
SWINGING ON ROPE, HIT ANOTHER KID WITH HIS HEAD;SKULL FX, HEMATOMA
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 10/01/2002	Age: 4 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Neck		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Rope or string
4 Y/O M C/O HEAD INJURY - WRAPPED BLIND CORD AROUND NECK. DX: NECK CONTUSION, LACERATION.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/07/2002	Age: 3 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: Concussion
Product: Rope or string
RAN INTO ROPE AND FELL BACKWARDS;CONCUSSION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/02/2002	Age: 4 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Arm		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Rope or string
FRACTURED FOREARM WHEN FELL OVER ROPE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/15/2002	Age: 5 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Mouth		Diagnosis: Dental Injury
Product: Rope or string
PT PLAYING TUG OF WAR PUT ROPE IN MOUTH AND INJURED TOOTH, LOOSE FRONT INCISOR
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/06/2002	Age: 4 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: School		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Rope or string
SITTING ON ROPE LAST NIGHT AT HIGH SCHOOL AND FELL STRIKING HER HEAD ON A CEMENT PARKING BARRIER OUTDOORS. DX CLOSED HEAD INJURY.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/03/2002	Age: 3 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: School		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Pubic Region		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Rope or string
BLOOD ON PENIS, HIT W/ ROPE AT SCHOOL FX: SKIN ABRASION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/07/2002	Age: 1 months	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Rope or string
PATIENT BORN WITH EXTRA FINGER, HOSPITAL HAD SUTURE TIED AROUND FINGER, SUTURE FELL OFF MOM REPLACED WITH A STRING, FINGER SWOLLEN; SWELLING
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/02/2002	Age: 21 months	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Rope or string
PT WAS JUMPING ROPE,CAR HIT ROPE AND PULLED PT IN AIR CLOSED HEAD INJURY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/30/2002	Age: 4 months	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Toe		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Rope or string
PT HAD STRING ON TOE, DX HAIR TOURNIQUET ON TOE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/01/2002	Age: 3 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Street or highway		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Hematoma
Product: Rope or string
HEAD HEMATOMA, PT PLAYING WITH A ROPE, FELL DOWN & SUST INJURY, C/O PAI N, NO LOC.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/21/2002	Age: 5 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Rope or string
INGESTION OF F.B. PT SWALLOWED A PIECE OF ROPE, STUCK IN THE RECTUM,REM OVED AT ER, NO PAIN, C/O DISCOMFORT.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/11/2002	Age: 3 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Mouth		Diagnosis: Dental Injury
Product: Rope or string
PT HAD ROPE IN MOUTH - BROKE TOOTH. D: NO DX; PT LEFT WITHOUT BEING S EEN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/08/2002	Age: 4 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Neck		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Rope or string, Monkey bars, playground gyms or other playground climbing apparatus
PT PLAYING WITH A ROPE ON *** AT GLEN ALLEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, JUMPED O FF OF GYM WITH ROPE ON NECK, ABRASION NECK
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/03/2002	Age: 4 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Arm		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Rope or string
PATIENT BEING WOUND UP WITH A ROPE BY A FRIEND WHEN PLAYING, FELL LANDI NG ON ARM; BOTH BONE FOREARM FX.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/02/2002	Age: 4 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Rope or string
PT WAS HOLDING LEAD ROPE OF HORSE AND HORSE WAS SPOOKED - PT WAS LIFTED INTO THE AIR & KNOCKED DOWN. D: MULT ABRASIONS RIGHT PARIETAL SCALP
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/21/2002	Age: 12 months	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: Rope or string
ROPE INJURY WHEN TRIPPED OVER DX: FRACTURED LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/07/2002	Age: 3 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Rope or string, Stairs or steps
AT CHILD'S APT OLDER KIDS HOLDING A ROPE FROM A BLACONY FOR PT TO SWING FROM THE ROPE DROPPED& PT FELL DOWN 3 STAIRS HIT HEAD NO LOC HEADACHE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/31/2002	Age: 5 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Rope or string, Slides or sliding boards
PATIENT HOLDING STRING FOR PINATA WHEN GOING DOWN SLIDE AT FRIEND'S HOU SE, STRING WRAPPED AROUND FINGER CAUGHT ON SLIDE; FINGER ABRASION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/04/2002	Age: 2 months	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Toe		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Rope or string
PT HAD STRING ON TOE. DX: R THIRD AND FOURTH TOE TRAUMA.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/28/2002	Age: 4 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Wrist		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Rope or string
ABRASION WRIST WITH ROPE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/25/2002	Age: 4 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Rope or string
PLAYING W/ KIDS, FOUND W/ ROPE AROUND NECK DX: CARDIOPULMONARY ARREST
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead

Date: 02/21/2002	Age: 4 months	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Toe		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Rope or string
STRING AROUND MIDDLE TOE RT FOOT ON FOR A COUPLE OF HOURS MOM UNABLE TO CUT OFF DX: FB REMOVED 3RD TOE RT FOOT W/ STRANGULATION INJURY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/16/2002	Age: 1 months	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Toe		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Rope or string
FOREIGN BODY TOE - GOT A PIECE OF STRING WRAPPED AROUND TOE ON RIGHTFOO T
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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