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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,005
See also: Lethal accidents, Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/30/2009 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers, Toilets |
| 16 YOF WITH SYNCOPE EPISODE WHILE IN SHOWER, HIT HEAD ON TOILET. DX-SYNCOPE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/29/2009 | 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 |
| 16YOF- PT WAS IN THE SHOWER, FELT DIZZY SYNCOPE EPISODE THEN FELL TO THE FLOOR. DX SYNCOPE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/20/2009 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | 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 |
| LITE HEADED,DIZZY;HAD SYNCOPAL EPISODE IN SHOWER; + NAUSEA-TOOK HOT SHO WER AFTER LG VOLUME DIARRHEA. DX: ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/14/2009 | 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 |
| DX HEADACHE/NAUSEA W VOMIT'G RESOLVED: 21YOF PT 16WKS PREG TAK'G SHOWER FELT REALLY LT-HEADED. BRACED SELF & WOKE UP W DAU IN SHOWER TAP'G HER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/06/2009 | Age: 21 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 |
| PT FELT DIZZY WHILE TAKING SHOWER, DX DIZZINESS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/23/2009 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| HAD A SINGLE SYNCOPAL EPISODE IN THE SHOWER & PASSED OUT-RECENTLY START ED *** 2 DAYS AGO DX VASOVAGEL EPISODE * |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/21/2009 | Age: 19 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 |
| DX SYNCOPE: PT & HUSBAND SHOWER'G W SHE GOT "LT-HEADED/TUNNEL VISION" THEN "PASSED OUT>" HSUBAD CAUGHT PT, PULLED HER F SHOWER &LAID ON FLOOR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/12/2009 | 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 |
| SUDDENLY DEVELOPED LIGHTHEADNESS&DIZZINESS WHILE GETTING OUT OF THE SHO WER>>VASO-VAGAL SYNCOPE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/01/2009 | Age: 20 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 |
| FD BY FIENCE UNRESPONSIVE IN THE BATHTUB S/P ETOH BINGE DRINKING >>ETOH INTOX |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/31/2009 | Age: 19 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 PASSED OUT IN THE SHOWER. DX SYNCOPE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/06/2009 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers, Draperies, curtains or shower curtains |
| 23YO WHITE MALE AT PRISON FOUND IN SHOWER WITH CURTAIN AROUND NECK ECCHYMOSIS ON NECK,DX CARDIAC ARREST, ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 09/28/2009 | 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 |
| C/O SUDDEN ONSET OF LIGHTHEADNESS&DIZZINESS TAKING A SHOWER THEN COLLAP SED&FELL>>SYNCOPE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/27/2009 | 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: Poisoning |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| ADMITS ETOH BINGE DRINKING LAST PM TODAY WOKE UP&WHILE TAKING A HOT SHO WER BECAME DIZZY&LIGHTHEADED>>DIZZINESS/VERTIGO |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/24/2009 | 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 |
| PATIENT FELT DIZZY AND PASSED OUT AFTER TAKING SHOWER AT HOME; SYNCOPE, HEADACHE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/20/2009 | Age: 24 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: Bathtubs or showers |
| C/O GRADUAL ONSET OF FAICAL SWELLING ASSOC WITH WHEEZING&THORAOT CLOSIN G AFTER TAKING A SHOWER>>ALL RXN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/07/2009 | 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: Poisoning |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| FD BY BOYFRIEND IN THE SHOWER UNRESPONSIVE S/P EARLIER @ PARTY&HAD ETOH DRINKS>>ALTERED MENTAL STATUS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/04/2009 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| 20YO HISP FEMALE AT HOME FELL IN BATHTUB FULL OF WATER,LOST BALANCE DX SYNCOPE, UTI |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/27/2009 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| PT, WHO HAD BEEN SLEEPING, GOT UP TO TAKE SHOWER. LOST CONSCIOUSNESS X 4 MIN. WHEN EXITING SHOWER. NOW WITH DIZZINESS, WEAKNESS. LPTMS. |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 07/22/2009 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| TOOK *** BEFORE BREAKFAST-END OF BREAKFAST SOB & CP,PASSED OUT IN SHOWE R DX SINUSITIS, ALLERGIC RXN TO *** * |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/18/2009 | 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 |
| DX HEADACHE: G0 F W MILD HEADACHE DAILY X 3D *** LAST SZ--LASTED~ 1MIN. FELL BACKWARES & STRUCK BACK OF HEAD ON BATHTUB W TAK'G SHOWER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/23/2009 | 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, Floors or flooring materials |
| FELL OUT SHOWER ONTO FLOOR SEIZURE |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 06/21/2009 | Age: 22 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 |
| 14WK IUP,NAUSEA & VOMITING, WOKE UP TOOK HOT SHOWER, IN MIDST OF SHOWER , PASSED OUT,DID NOT HIT HEAD DX:HYPEREMESIS GRAVIDARUM, SYNCOPE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/15/2009 | 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, Floors or flooring materials |
| PATIENT WITH ABDOMINAL PAIN, BEGAN TO FEEL DIZZY DURING SHOWER, SAT DOW N ON SHOWER FLOOR, STOOD UP FELL TO FLOOR, LOC; SYNCOPE, UTI |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/31/2009 | 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, Floors or flooring materials |
| PT WAS GETTING OUT OF SHOWER FELT DIZZY AND PASSED OUT ONTO FLOOR DX: VASOVAGAL SYNCOPE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/28/2009 | 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: Poisoning |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| PT WAS FOUND PASSED OUT IN THE SHOWER AFTER DRINKING ALCOHOL DX ETOH |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/22/2009 | 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 |
| DX SYNCOPE/ASYMPTOMATIC BACTERURIA/NECK PAIN: STATES SHE PASSED OUT IN HOT BATHTUB & WOKE UP ON BED. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/18/2009 | Age: 19 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 WAS IN SHOWER AND BECAME LIGHTHEADED & NAUSEATED. DX SYNCOPE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/12/2009 | 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: Submersion |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| FOUND UNRESPONSIVE IN TUB FILLED WITH WATER,? OVERDOSED WHILE IN TUB TH EN SYNCOPED,? DROWNING AND RESPIRATORY DEMISE, DIED IN ER |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 02/28/2009 | 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: Bathtubs or showers, Benches |
| REPORTS DEVELOPED NAUSEA&LIGHTHEADNESSA FTER TAKING HOT SHOWER THEN SAT DOWN ONTO A BENCH THEN PASSED OUT>>SYNCOPE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/24/2009 | Age: 17 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 IN SHOWER, WHILE VOMITING HIT CHEEK ON TUB DX: VASOVAGAL EPISO DE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/24/2009 | 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 |
| SUDDEN LIGHTHEADNESS&DIZZINESS WHILE TAKING A SHOWER FOLLOWED BY SYNCOP AL EPISODE&FELL>>SYNCOPE/VS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/23/2009 | Age: 18 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" GETTING OUT OF TUB/SYNCOPE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/19/2009 | 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 |
| DX LWOBS: HEADACHE. HA & DIZZINESS X3D. SYNCOPE IN SHOWER THIS A.M. |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 02/11/2009 | 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 |
| PASSED OUT GETTING INTO THE SHOWER AND HAD A SEIZURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/09/2009 | Age: 22 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 SOB: HAS HAD PROB INTERMITTENTLY SINCE AUGUST, BUT TODAY IT HAPPENED IN THE SHOWER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/07/2009 | 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 CONCERN FOR ABSCENE SZ ACTIVITY: LOC AFTER EPISODES LT- HEADEDNESS X5 TODAY WHILE IN SHOWER. RPTS MULTI-EPISODES "2-3/D X 2WKS" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/27/2009 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | 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 |
| DX SYNCOPE: SHOWER'G SUDDENTLY FELT N & HOT, THEN PASSED OUT. WOKE UP ON FLOOR; HAS MILD HA THIS AFTERNOON.. VOMIT'D X1 IMMED AFTERWARDS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/22/2009 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | 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: Bathtubs or showers |
| DX HEADACHE/SYNCOPE: W GO'G TO LIFT WTS; TOOK NEW "NITROX" WT LIFT'G SUP & HA GOT WORSE; HAD SHOT OF ETOH W ROOMMATE. PASSED OUT IN SHOWER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/06/2009 | 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 |
| 23 YO IN BECAME WEAK WHILE IN SHOWER SYNCOPE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/01/2009 | 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 |
| PT FELT DIZZY WHILE AT FRIENDS HOUSE LAST NIGHT AND FELL INTO BATHTUB A FTER PASSING OUT, NOW W/HA AND DIZZINESS; SYNCOPE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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