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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 752
See also: Lethal accidents, Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/23/2008 | Age: 19 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: Other |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| DX SYNCOPE: P/W ONE EPISODE OF SPONTANEOUS LOC TODAY IN SHOWER; HAD DARKNESS CLOS'G IN F SIDES OF VISUAL FIELDS PRIOR TO COLLASPE. C/O HA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/08/2008 | 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: Bathtubs or showers |
| REPROTS SUDDEN ONSET OF DIZZINESS, LIGHTHEADNESS WHILE TAKING A SHOWER FOLLOWED BY A SYNCOPAL EPISODE&FALL>>SYNCOPE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/03/2008 | Age: 17 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, Floors or flooring materials |
| PT WAS IN SHOWER. FELT HOT AND DIZZY. STEPPED OUT. WOKE UP ON FLOOR. BR IEF LOC. FELL TO THE FLOOR. DX SYCOPAL EPISODE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/02/2008 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| LIVES IN THE DORM, WOKE UP FROM A NAP, WENT TO TAKE A SHOWER AFTER WHIC H DEVELOPED DIZZINESS&LIGHTHEADNESS THEN SYNCOPED&FELL> SYNCOPE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/29/2008 | Age: 17 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 |
| SUDDENLY DEVELOPED DIZZINESS&LIGHTHEADED FOLLOWED BY A SYNCOPAL FALL WH ILE TAKING A SHOWER>> SYNCOPE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/27/2008 | Age: 16 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 |
| DX NEAR SYNCOPY: W IN HOT SHOWER THIS A.M. & GOT VERY DIZZY & STARTED HAV'G TUNNEL VISION & SEE'G BLACK SPOTS. CALLED MOM--PUT'G OUT MICROWAV |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/10/2008 | Age: 20 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 |
| SUDDEN ONSET OF DIZZINESS&LIGHTHEADNESS WHILE TAKING SHOWER THEN PASSED OUT&FELL>> SYNCPE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/03/2008 | Age: 23 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: Other |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| DX SINUSITIS ACUTE, S/P WISDOM TEETH REMOVAL/SYNCOPE/N W VOMIT'G/ANAPHY LACTOID RXN: LOC WHILE TAK'G A SHOWER. WIFE HEARD HIM HIT THE FLOOR. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/20/2008 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| IN SHOWER,SYNCOPAL EPISODE;EVERYTHING GOT BLACK,COULDN'T SEE;OUT OF SHO WER STARTED VOMITING;FELL ASLEEP. SYNCOPE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/20/2008 | Age: 25 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 |
| DX PRE-SYNCOPE: 18WKS PREGNANT PT PRESENTS TO ED C/O 2 PRE-SYNCOPE EPISODES. FEELS TOTAL BODY WEANESS BLD RUSH'G AWAY F HEAD; 1ST SHOWER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/10/2008 | 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: Bathtubs or showers |
| DX SYNCOPE/PERICARDIAL EFFUSION/BRAIN TUMOR/MASS: PASSED OUT SIT'G IN BATHTUB TODAY. SLUMPED OVER BUT NOT FOR VERY LONG |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 10/01/2008 | 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: Bathtubs or showers |
| DX CHLAMYDIAL INF/SYNCOPE/URI: SYNCOPE W I SHOWER THIS A.M. PRECEDED BY VAOVAGAL SX, LT-HEADED STAND'G, FLUSHED, FELT HOT. DOWN X A MINUTE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/25/2008 | Age: 18 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 |
| DX SYNCOPE: PASSED OUT IN SHOWER: FELT NAUSEOUS/HEAVY, LEANED AGAINST WALL, PT WOKE UP ON GROUND. MOM HEARD CRASH PT C/O HA L EAR PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/19/2008 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| GOT WEAK IN SHOWER/SYNCOPE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/04/2008 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| SYNCOPAL EPISODE IN SHOWER SYNCOPE * |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/17/2008 | Age: 18 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 |
| PT STARTED FEELING DIZZY WHILE TAKING A SHOWER CAUSING SEIZURE TO BODY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/16/2008 | Age: 19 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 |
| REPORTS SUDDEN ONSET OF SHORTNESS OF BREATH&BACK PAIN WHIEL TAKING A BA TH>>DEHYDRATION/BACK PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/05/2008 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| PASSED OUT IN SHOWER/SYNCOPE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/04/2008 | Age: 21 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: Other |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| LIGHT HEADED AND FELL STRIKING HEAD ON TUB--SYNCOPE AND HEADACHE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/29/2008 | 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: Other |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| TOOK A SHOWER& WHILE GETTING OUT DEVLEOPED DIZZINESS&LIGHTHEADNESS THEN COLLAPSED >> VASO-VAGAL SYNCOPE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/28/2008 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| FAINTED PREVIOUS DAY AFTER GETTING OUT OF HOT SHOWER - PREV HX OF SAME VASOVAGAL SYCOPE DUE TO HOT WATER AND ? INADEQUATE DIET |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/25/2008 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers, Tablet or capsule drugs |
| DIZZY TAKING SHOWER AT HOSPITAL WHEN VISING DAUGHTER WHO IS HIV+,PT +HI V, STARTED 2 NEW MEDS 5 DAYS AGO,***,***; SUSPECT ADVER MED RX |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/01/2008 | Age: 24 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 |
| 24 YO FELL OUT WHILE IN SHOWER SYNMCOPING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/28/2008 | 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: Bathtubs or showers |
| IN SHOWER AND HAD SYNCOPAL EPISODE BECOMMING DIZZY AND CONFUSED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/10/2008 | Age: 19 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 |
| DEVELOPED NAUSEA&VOMITING THEN WHILE TAKING A SHOWER, SYNCOPED&FELL >> SYNCOPE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/08/2008 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers, Illegal drugs |
| WAS GIVING HER DAUGHTER A BATH AND THE NEXT THING SHE KNEW THE PARAMED- ICS WERE THERE. PCP ABUSE-BENZODIAPEN ABUSE* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/02/2008 | Age: 17 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: Other |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| 17 YO PASSED OUT IN SHOWER SYNCOPE |
| Disposition: Held for observation |
| Date: 03/27/2008 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| PT IN SHOWER WHEN BODY BECAME WARM AND SHE FELL. DOESN'T REMEMBER ANYTH ING ELSE FROM EVENT. D: SYNCOPE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/27/2008 | Age: 16 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: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| C/O GENEREALIZED BODY RASH&ITCHINESS THAT STARTED AFTER TAKING A SHOWER >> URTICARIA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/26/2008 | Age: 21 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 |
| TAKING A SHOWER AND PASSED OUT --SYNCOPAL EPISODE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/28/2008 | Age: 16 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 |
| SUDDEN ONSETO OF DIZZINESS&LIGHTHEADNESS WHILE SHOWERING, THEN FELL >> PRE-SYNCOPE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/16/2008 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| STUDENT ON SCHOOL FIELD TRIP FOUND UNRESPONSIVE IN HOTEL BATHTUB---CARD IOPULMONARY ARREST |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 02/12/2008 | Age: 16 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 |
| PT TAKING A SHOWER AND THE ROOM STARTED TO SPIN HAD TO SIT DOWN IN THE SHOWER TREATED FOR DIZZINESS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/11/2008 | Age: 16 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: Bathtubs or showers |
| 16 YO FEMALE WAS DIZZY WHILE TAKING HOT SHOWER DIZZINESS |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 01/01/2008 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| PT SYNCOPIZED IN SHOWER. DX: HEADACHE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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