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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,040
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/28/2002 | Age: 71 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Televisions |
| SPONTANEOUS NOSEBLEED WHILE WATCHING TELEVISION AT HOME, SHE TAKES ASPIRIN TWICE PER WEEK. DX NOSEBLEED, USE OF ASPIRIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/15/2002 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Televisions |
| PATIENT HAD A SEIZURE WHILE WATCHING TELEVISION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/14/2002 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Televisions |
| PATIENT SPRAYED HALF CAN OF *** ON TV AND PETS AT HOME, EXPOSED TO ***, HEADACHE, PC CONTACTED; TOXIC EXPOSURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/30/2002 | Age: 60 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Televisions, Chairs |
| WHILE WATCHING TV, BECAME WEAK, GOT UP FROM CHAIR, UNABLE TO WALK DX: WEAK & DIZZY, R/O TIA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/26/2002 | Age: 71 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Televisions |
| WATCHING TV AT HOME, FELT LIGHTHEADED WITH PALPITATIONS. DX: HYPERVENT ILATION SYNDROME, PALPITATIONS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/13/2002 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Televisions |
| PATIENT HIT HEAD ON TV AT HOME, HAS HEADACHE, FEVER; DX: FEVER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/13/2002 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Televisions |
| SYNCOPAL EPISODE - HAD SYNCOPAL EPISODE WHEN REACHING FOR TELEVISION |
| Disposition: Held for observation |
| Date: 06/06/2002 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Electric Shock |
| Product: Televisions |
| REACHING BEHIND TV DX. ELECTRICAL SHOCK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/10/2002 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Electric Shock |
| Product: Televisions |
| ELECTRICAL SHOCK WHEN TV WAS HIT BY LIGHTNING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/29/2002 | Age: 20 months | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Televisions |
| PT WAS EATING IN FRONT OF TV - SAW BOX OF RAT POISON AND ATE UNKNOWN AM OUNT OF BLUE PELLETS. D: ACCIDENTAL INGESTION OF RAT POISON |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/24/2002 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Televisions |
| ANXIETY FROM WATCHING T.V. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/22/2002 | Age: 76 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Televisions |
| TODAY WHILE WALKING AROUND AND THEN SITTING WATCHING TELEVISION AT HOME HE NOTED SOB. DX CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIA, HYPERTENSION, COPD, ATR FIB |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 03/18/2002 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Televisions |
| SEIZURE - VICTIM AT HOME WATCHING TELEVISION WHEN HE BEGAN TO SEIZE - N O PREVIOUS HISTORY OF SEIZURES |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 03/13/2002 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Televisions, Computers |
| PATIENT HAD A PHOTO SCREEN AT SCHOOL, NOW WHENEVER IN FRONT OF TV OR CO MPUTER HAS A SEIZURE; SEIZURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/12/2002 | Age: 76 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Televisions |
| SUDDEN ONSET DYSPNEA AT 0115 WHILE WATCHING TELEVISION AT HOME, USED INHALER WITHOUT RELIEF. DX SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA, PNEUMONIA. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 03/08/2002 | Age: 77 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Televisions |
| DIZZY SPELL THIS EVENING WHILE WATCHING TELEVISION AT HOME. DX VESTIBULAR NEURONITIS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/01/2002 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Electric Shock |
| Product: Televisions |
| PT WAS SHOCKED WHILE WORKING ON TELEVISION. DX: ELECTRICAL SHOCK, EXACERB CHRONIC NECK PX. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/31/2002 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Televisions |
| PT DEVELOPED RAPID HEART BEAT WHILE WATCHING TV. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/29/2002 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Televisions |
| PT DEVELOPED CHEST PAIN AND TINGLING WATCHING TV |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/27/2002 | 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: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Televisions |
| INSOMNIA,ANXIETY - HEART STARTED BEATING FAST WHEN WATCHING TELEVI SION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/27/2002 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Televisions |
| PT. WAS WATCHING T.V. AND DRINKING ALOT- ETOH POISONING- HE WAS DR INKING GIN AND BEER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/23/2002 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Televisions |
| SHORT OF BREATH WHILE WATCHING TV ASTHMA ATTACK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/19/2002 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Televisions |
| WATCHING TV THIS AM, SUDDEN INCREASE OF PULSE TO 136, NOW RESOLVED , HAS BEEN ON *** FOR ONE WEEK. POSS ADV RX TO ***, TRANS TACHY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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