Accidents - Scuba diving - 26-50 years old - Year 2006

Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,321
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Accidents - Sex

Accidents - Race

Accidents - Body Parts:

Ear:	698	Lower Leg:	144
Upper Trunk:	102	Internal:	86
Eyeball:	86	Toe:	79
All Of Body:	45	Shoulder:	30
Knee:	15	Head:	15
Foot:	15

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records

Date: 12/28/2006	Age: 43 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Toe		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Scuba diving
PATIENT DROPPED OXYGEN TANK ON FOOT AND FRACTURED TOE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/26/2006	Age: 43 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Shoulder		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Scuba diving
PT SPRAINED SHOULDER SCUBA DIVING
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/12/2006	Age: 28 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Scuba diving
OTITIS EXTERNA-PAIN SINCE SCUBA DIVING IN ***
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/28/2006	Age: 36 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Scuba diving
PT WENT OUT SCUBA DIVING NOW WITH PAIN IN RIGHT EAR OTITIS
Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA)

Date: 11/15/2006	Age: 31 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Scuba diving
PT SCUBA DIVING NOW WITH EAR PAIN AND HEARING LOSS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/15/2006	Age: 45 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Scuba diving
PT ON VACATION AND SCUBA DIVING NOW WITH COMPRESSION SICKNESS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/30/2006	Age: 36 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Scuba diving
PT OUT SCUBA DIVING IN GULF, 40 FEET DOWN HAD SEVERE RT EAR PAIN, RT OT ITIS EXTERNA
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/26/2006	Age: 33 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Scuba diving
PT WAS SCUBA DIVING YESTERDAY AND EXPERIENCED SEVERE CHEST PAIN WHICH C ONTINUES TODAY CHEST PAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/23/2006	Age: 36 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Scuba diving
PT WAS DIVING THIS WEEKEND IN THE GULF AND DEVELOPED SEVERE PAIN IN RIG HT EAR BAROTITIS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/21/2006	Age: 29 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Scuba diving
PT SCUBA DIVING IN GULF, DEVELOPED PAIN IN LT EAR, LT OTITIS EXTERNA
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/14/2006	Age: 32 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Shoulder		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Scuba diving
PT WAS SCUBA DIVING AND SUSTAINED SHOULDER SPRAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/08/2006	Age: 33 years	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Foot		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Scuba diving
33 YO FEMALE DROPPED SCUBA TANK ON FOOT CONTUSION FOOT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/06/2006	Age: 29 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Scuba diving
PT HAD BAROTRAUMA TO THE EARS FROM SCUB DIVING.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/02/2006	Age: 30 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Hemorrhage
Product: Scuba diving
PT WENT SCUBA DIVING AND BROKE BLOOD VESSELS IN EYE. DX: SUBCONJUNCTIV AL HEMORRHAGE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/23/2006	Age: 35 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Scuba diving
C/O PT STATES WENT SCUBING DIVING DX RT OTITIS MEDIA
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/30/2006	Age: 42 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Scuba diving
PT OUT IN THE GULF SCUBA DIVING TWO DAYS AGO NOW WITH SEVERE PAIN IN RI GHT EAR OTITIS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/19/2006	Age: 41 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Scuba diving
PT WAS SCUBA DIVING IN THE GULF AND RAN LEFT LOWER LEG AGAINST SOME FIR E CORAL NOW BURNING AND ITCHING ABRASION LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/11/2006	Age: 39 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Puncture
Product: Scuba diving
TM PERFORATION - TRAUMATIC - PATIENT PRESENTS WITH RIGHT DECREASED HEAR ING AND EAR PAIN - SYMPTOMS BEGAM ABRUPTLY AFTER SCUBA DIVING
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/28/2006	Age: 30 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Scuba diving
SCUBA DIVING GOING DOWN 66 FEET FOR TWENTY MINUTES DEVELOPED PARESTHESI AS, DECOMPRESSION ILLNESS--TRANSF TO HYPERBARIC CHAMBER AT MASS EYE/EAR
Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital

Date: 06/27/2006	Age: 43 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Scuba diving
WENT SCUBA DIVING, C/O EAR PAIN, BLEEDING DX L IM PERFORATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/21/2006	Age: 37 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Scuba diving
WENT SCUBA DIVING,DEVELOPED HEADACHE WHICH LEAD TO DISSECTION
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 06/18/2006	Age: 38 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Aspirated Object
Product: Scuba diving
SOB AFTER WATER ASPIRATION WHILE SCUBA DIVING DX: WATER ASPIRATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/03/2006	Age: 37 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Scuba diving
PT SCUBA DIVING AT THE BEACH SUSTAINED A LACERATION TO LEFT LOWER LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/18/2006	Age: 40 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Scuba diving
PT C/O DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS AFTER SCUPBA DIVING
Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital

Date: 04/13/2006	Age: 48 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Scuba diving
OTITIS EXTERNA-PAIN SINCE SCUBA DIVING IN LAKE-1 WEEK PTA
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/01/2006	Age: 28 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Scuba diving, Built-in swimming pools
PT SCUBA DIVING IN A BUILT IN GROUND SWIMMING POOL THEN DEVELOPED CHEST PAIN STRAINED MUSCLES
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/27/2006	Age: 38 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Scuba diving
38 YOF HAD HAD NUMBNESS, PAIN RT SIDE OF FACE LAST WEEK WHILE ON DIVING EXPEDITION.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/11/2006	Age: 30 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Scuba diving
PT SCUBA DIVING YESTERDAY, WENT 50 FEET BELOW WATER, SUSTAINED SEVERE P AIN RT EAR, BARRO TRAUMA RT EAR
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/06/2006	Age: 33 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Knee		Diagnosis: Puncture
Product: Scuba diving
33 YO MALE WAS DIVING AND WAS PUNCTURED THROUGH WETSUIT PW LEFT KNEE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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