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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 418
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/22/2008 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| AT HOME SISTER THREW HAIRBRUSH LACERATION TO HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/20/2008 | Age: 59 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: Other |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| DX TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA: P/W L SIDED ELECTRIC FEEL'G SHOOT'G HEAD PAINS AFTER TOUCH'G L HEAD W BRUSH'G HAIR OR OTHER TOUCH'G |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/04/2008 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes, Other drugs or medications |
| MOM USED LICE SHAMPOO ON PATIENT 2 DAYS AGO, RUBBING TOO HARD W/LICE COMB, NOW HAS SUPERFICIAL SCALP ABRASIONS FROM COMB; SCALP ABRASIONS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/18/2008 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT WAS COMBING HEAD & FELT A PC OF METAL STICKING OUT OF SKULL PT HADBR AIN SURGERY 7 YRS OLD DX: FOREIGN BODY IN HEAD DX: TRANS TO *** |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 11/01/2008 | Age: 1 months | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| WAS HIT OVER THE HEAD WITH A HAIRBRUSH BY OLDER BROTHER DX- CONT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/23/2008 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PATIENT GETTING HAIR COMBED WHEN FELL FLAT ON HER FACE HITTING NOSE, BL EEDING FROM NOSE, VOMITING; HEAD INJURY, HAIR GROOMING SYNCOPE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/13/2008 | Age: 80 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| NOTED BLOOD ON SCALP WHEN COMBING HAIR, NOT SURE WHAT HAPPENED. DX. HEA D INJURY, SCALP LACERATION.* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/24/2008 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| COMBING HAIR. DX SCALP ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/24/2008 | Age: 7 months | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| WHILE HAVING HER HAIR COMBED, PT FELL, LACERATED HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/06/2008 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| 52 YO FEMALE COMBED HAIR AND POPPED ABCESS ABCESS DRAINING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/28/2008 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| 10 YO BROKE COMB TOOTH IN HEAD LAC SCALP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/10/2008 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Concussion |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT WAS PLAYING OUTSIDE AT A FRIENDS HOUSE WHEN HE WAS ACCIDENTALLY HIT IN THE HEAD WITH A HAIRBRUSH THROWN BY A FRIEND. PT DIZZY. DX CONCUSSIO |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/01/2008 | Age: 16 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: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT HIT IN HEAD WITH A BRUSH, NO DETAILS, HEAD INJURY WITH LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/19/2008 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| 10 YO MALE WAS HIT IN HEA WIH HAIRBRUSH LACERATION SCALP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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