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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 744
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/04/2002 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Electric heating pads |
| BURN TO THE LOWER BACK- SUSTAINED WHILE USING HEATING PAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/11/2002 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Electric heating pads |
| DX:PARTIAL TO FULL THICKNESS BURNS TO R SCAPULA. FELL ASLEEP FOR 2 HOUR S ON HEATING PAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/31/2002 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Electric heating pads |
| BURN BACK - 30 YOF BURN ON LEFT LOWER BACK X2 DAYS, BLISTERED 2 AREAS, HEADACHE SINCE YESTERDAY, VOMITED X2, FROM HEATING PAD USE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/18/2002 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Electric heating pads |
| PT FELL ASLEEP WITH ELEC HEATING PAD TO BACK, NOW WITH BURNS DX:BURNS TO LOW BACK, FLANK (LEFT BEFORE EVALUATION) |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 08/07/2002 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Electric heating pads |
| BURN LOWER BACK - 48 YOM STATES THAT HIS BACK GAVE OUT ON HIM AND HE DE CIDED TO USE A HEATING PAD, RECEIVED BURNS TO LOWER BACK, HAS BLISTERS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/15/2002 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Electric heating pads |
| BLISTERS ON BACK, TWO LONG RED CRUSTED AREAS NOTED ON BACK, CAME FROM H EATING PAD. DX. BURN BACK. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/21/2002 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Shoulder | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Electric heating pads |
| FELL ASLEEP ON HEATING PAD BURNING SHOULDER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/16/2002 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Electric heating pads |
| SECOND DEGREE BURN LEFT CHEST WALL, BECAME DRUNK AND PASSED OUTWHILE ON A HEATING PAD AND BURNED CHEST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/08/2002 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Electric heating pads |
| PT STATES FELL ASLEEP WITH HEATING PAD ON HIGH AND BURNT HISBUTTOCK 2ND DEGREE BURNS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/28/2002 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Electric heating pads |
| USED HEATING PAD FOR BACK PAIN AND FELL ASLEEP FOR SEVERAL HOURS AND WHEN AWOKE HAD BLISTERS ON BACK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/24/2002 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Electric heating pads |
| BURNED HIS BACK ON A HEATING PAD. 2ND DEGREE BURN TO BACK $ |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/06/2002 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Electric heating pads |
| 33 YOF PARAPLEGIC BURNED UPPER BACK WITH HEATING PAD. DX: 2ND DEGREE BURN TO UPPER BACK. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/06/2002 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Electric heating pads |
| TENDONITIS, FINGER BURN - DEVELOPED PAIN IN RIGHT HAND, RIGHT KNUCKLE R ADIATING TO WRIST, PLACED UNDERNEATH HEATING PAD AND BURNED KNUCKLE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/23/2002 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Electric heating pads |
| ACCIDENTALLY BURNED ABDOMEN AND BUTTOCKS YESTERDAY WHEN SLEEPING ON A HEATING PAD. 1ST AND 2ND DEGREE BURN ABDOMEN $ |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/11/2002 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Electric heating pads, Microwave ovens |
| 2%BURN TO LOWER BACK.PT WARMED UP A HEATING PAD IN MICROWAVE AND APPLIE D IT TO BACK AND IT BUSTED AND BURNED LOWER BACK. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/13/2002 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Electric heating pads |
| RT LUMBAR STRAIN, NO STATED INJURY, WAS USING HEATING PAD ON BACK AND THOUGHT SHE HAD BURNED SELF (STATED IN NURSES NOTES) |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/07/2002 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Electric heating pads |
| BURNED BUTTOCKS ON HEATING PAD DX. BUTTOCKS BURN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/05/2002 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Burns, Radiation |
| Product: Electric heating pads |
| PT BURNED LEG WITH HEATING PAD, 2ND DEGREE BURN TO L LOWER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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