Accidents - Fishing - 26-50 years old - Year 2003 - Head

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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,204
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Date: 12/14/2003	Age: 37 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Fishing
PT GOT FISH HOOK EMBEDDED IN SCALP FOREIGN BODY HEAD
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/17/2003	Age: 42 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Fishing
PT GOT A FISH HOOK STUCK IN SCALP DX: FB SCALP
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/07/2003	Age: 41 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Fishing
SOMEONE ELSE CAST THEIR LINE WHILE FISHING GOT HOOKED IN BACK OF HEAD DX FORIEGN BODY SCALP
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/03/2003	Age: 29 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Fishing
PT. STOOD UP WHILE FISHING THIS AFTERNOON, FELT DIZZY, BLACKED OUT IN G RASS. DX. DIZZY, HEADACHE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/04/2003	Age: 50 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Fishing
PT FISHING GOT THE HOOK EMBEDDED IN SCALP FOREIGN BODY SCALP
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/13/2003	Age: 41 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Fishing
FISH HOOK IN HEAD-FOREIGN BODY REMOVAL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/06/2003	Age: 38 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: Laceration
Product: Fishing, Metal containers
SCALP LAC - FELL BACKWARDS WHEN FISHING,STRUCK METAL BURN BARREL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/26/2003	Age: 44 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Fishing
PT GOT FISH HOOK LODGED IN HEAD.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/18/2003	Age: 40 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: Head		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Fishing
PT WAS FISHING ON A RIVER WHEN HE GOT A FISH HOOK CAUGHT IN HIS SCALP.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/07/2003	Age: 41 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: Foreign Body
Product: Fishing
2 FISHHOOKS EMBEDDED IN POSTERIOR SCALP, REMOVED; FISHHOOKS X 2 BASE OF SCALP AT 8:30 AM TODAY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/23/2003	Age: 43 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Fishing
PATIENT WAS ACCIDENTALLY HIT WITH A ROD AND REEL. DX-CONTUSION TO HEAD.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/16/2003	Age: 36 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: Foreign Body
Product: Fishing
F.B. SCALP - FISHHOOK CAUGHT IN HEAD WHEN CASTING
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/11/2003	Age: 29 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Fishing
PATIENT HAS FISH HOOK STUCK IN HEAD. DX: FOREIGN BODY TO HEAD WITH RE MOVAL.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/11/2003	Age: 31 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Fishing
PATIENT GOT A FISH HOOK CAUGHT IN HIS HEAD. DX-FISH HOOK EMBEDDED IN SCALP.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/03/2003	Age: 35 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: Foreign Body
Product: Fishing
FOREIGN BODY SCALP - PATIENT PRESENTS WITH FISHHOOK IN BACK OF SCALP SU STAINED WHEN FISHING
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/30/2003	Age: 49 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Fishing
FISH HOOK IN HEAD. REMOVE FOREIGN BODY FROM SCALP.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/26/2003	Age: 34 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Fishing
GOT FISHING HOOK STUCK IN HEAD - FOREIGN BODY SCALP
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/02/2003	Age: 49 years	Sex: Female	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: Fishing
PT WAS IN A CLOSET WHEN A BAG OF FISHING WEIGHTS FELL ON HER DX: RT EYE CORNEAL ABRASION, CHI
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/25/2003	Age: 28 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Fishing
FELL ON ICE WHILE ICE FISHING, STRUCK BACK OF HEAD ON ICE, WAS INTOXICA TED AT THE TIME / SUBARACHNOID BLEED, CHI
Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital

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