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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 724
See also: Lethal accidents, Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 10/14/2008 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Swimming |
| PT WAS SWIMMING IN THE RIVER UNABLE TO GET OUT HAD TO CLING ONTO A PILI NG TO GET HELP HYPOTHERMIA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/11/2008 | Age: 17 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: Swimming, Swimming pools |
| PT SWIMMING IN A POOOL AND DEVELOPED AN ITCHY RASH ALL OVER BODY CONTAC T DERMATITIS FROM POOL WATER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/24/2008 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Swimming |
| SWIMMING OUT TO BUOY; EXHAUSTED; PT COULD NOT STAY ABOVE WATER. SUBMER GED, ASPIRATION, CHOAKING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/23/2008 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Swimming |
| PT SWIMMING IN THE OCEAN AND WENT UNDER UNABLE TO COME UP FOR OVER 30 S ECONDS NEAR DROWNING |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 08/14/2008 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Swimming, Swimming pools |
| PT WENT SWIMMING IN A PUBLIC COMPLEX SWIMMING POOL AND CAME OUT COVERED IN A RASH CONTACT DERMATITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/11/2008 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Swimming, Swimming pools |
| PT ON THE HIGH SCHOOL SWIM TEAM WAS PRACTICING IN THE POOL AND PASSED O UT SYNCOPE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/06/2008 | Age: 16 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: Swimming |
| HEAT EXHAUSTION: ANXIETY: HYPERVENTILATION: CEPHALGIA: STARTED AFTER SWIMMING TODAY, BLURRY VISION, COULDN'T CATCH BREATH |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/02/2008 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Swimming, Built-in swimming pools |
| PATIENT WAS ITCHING ALL OVER AFTER SWIMMING IN THE CITY POOL. DX-ALLERGIC REACTION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/24/2008 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Swimming |
| DX LWBS: BODY RASH. PT REPORTS SUDDEN ONSET OF ITCHY RED AREAS ALL OVER BODY S/P SWIMMING IN LAKE THIS A.M. |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 07/18/2008 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Swimming, Alcohol |
| PT WAS INTOXICATED BAC OF 161 WAS SWIMMING IN THE LAKE AND ALMOST DROWN ED SUBMERSION INJURY ETOH INTOXICATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/10/2008 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Swimming |
| PT WAS SWIMMING TOWARDS DOCK AT LAKE AND GOT TIRED. DX: NEAR DROWNING, HEMOPTYSIS, HYPOXIA. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 07/04/2008 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Swimming |
| PT HAD BEEN SWIMMING AT THE LAKE/ SWIMMERS ITCH |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/30/2008 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Swimming |
| HAD BEEN SWIMMING AT *** GOT TIRED COULDN'T SWIM ANYMORE WASPULLED FROM LAKE BY BYSTANDERS. DX-NEAR DROWNING. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/19/2008 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Swimming, Swimming pools |
| PT SWIMMING IN A POOL WITH CHLORINE WATER AND BROKE OUT IN A RASH CONTA CT DERMATITIS ALL OVER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/07/2008 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Swimming |
| SUBMERSION DROWING - 16 YO MALE WAS CAUGHT IN CURRENT WHEN SWIMMING AT LOCAL RIVER - WENT UNDERWATER AND WAS UNABLE TO BE PULLED OUT - DOA |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 06/07/2008 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Swimming |
| H/O HYPERGLYCEMIA HAS BACK PAIN W/GREEN URINE, ITCHING RASH AFTER GOING SWIMMING YESTERDAY; RASH, UTI |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/12/2008 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Swimming, Built-in swimming pools |
| PATIENT SWIMMING AT SWIM PRACTICE AT SCHOOL, BEGAN TO HYPERVENTILATE, S HORT OF BREATH; ASTHMA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/07/2008 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Swimming |
| PT C/O WEAKNESS THAT BEGAN 9 MONTHS AGO WHILE SWIMMING IN *** |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
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