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Accidents - Pens and pencils - Year 2003 - Wrist

 



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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 318
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Date: 10/07/2003Age: 11 yearsSex: FemaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: WristDiagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Pens and pencils
PATIENT GOT PEN CAP LODGED IN ARM CAST AT HOME; FB REMOVED
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 05/08/2003Age: 12 yearsSex: MaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: SchoolFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: WristDiagnosis: Puncture
Product: Pens and pencils
PUNCTURE WOUND RT WRIST WITH HEMATOMA, HAD PEN STUCK INTO RT WRIST WHILE AT SCHOOL, NOT STATED INTENT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 04/05/2003Age: 26 yearsSex: FemaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: WristDiagnosis: Puncture
Product: Pens and pencils
PW TO WRIST WHEN FELL ON PENCIL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 03/22/2003Age: 12 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: WristDiagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Pens and pencils
ATTEMPTING TO SCRATCH L ARM IN A CAST WITH ERASER OF PENCIL - END CAME OFF AND IS STUCK IN WRIST DX: FOREIGN BODY REMOVED L WRIST
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 03/20/2003Age: 9 yearsSex: FemaleRace: Black/African American
Location: SchoolFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: WristDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Pens and pencils
PT FIGHTING STABBED WITH PENCIL IN LT WRIST, LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 02/26/2003Age: 19 yearsSex: FemaleRace: Black/African American
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: WristDiagnosis: Other
Product: Pens and pencils
19 YO FEMALE DEVELOPED WRIST PAIN WHEN WRITING WITH PENCIL GANGLION CYST
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 02/25/2003Age: 12 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: SchoolFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: WristDiagnosis: Puncture
Product: Pens and pencils
STABBED SELF WITH PENCIL ACCIDENTALLY DX. PW WRIST
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 01/21/2003Age: 10 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: WristDiagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Pens and pencils
PT HAS PEN SPRING IN WRIST, FOREIGN BODY L WRIST
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 01/09/2003Age: 10 yearsSex: MaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: WristDiagnosis: Puncture
Product: Pens and pencils
10 YOM HAD WRIST PUNCTURED BY A PENCIL PUNCTURE WOUND R WRIST
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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