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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,079
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/27/2009 | Age: 19 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 |
| WATCHING TV AND HAD A SEIZURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/21/2009 | Age: 28 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: Poisoning |
| Product: Televisions |
| 28YOM, ADMITS TO ACTIVE INTERAVENOUS/HEROIN ABUSE, C/O SUDDEN ONSET OF CHEST TIGHTNESS WHILE WATCHING TV>>ANXIETY/SUBS ABUSE/KNEE EFFUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/03/2009 | Age: 35 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 |
| SITTING DOWN WATCHING TV AND DEVELOPED SHORTNESS OF BREATH AND DIZZINES S |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/30/2009 | Age: 7 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 |
| REPORTEDLY STAYED UP ALL NIGHT WATCHING TV LATER FD UNRESPONSIVE ON THE SCHOOL BUS>>FATIGUE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/23/2009 | Age: 66 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 |
| WATCHING TV AND BECAME SHORT OF BREATH,GASPING WITH DYSPNEA AND PLEURAL EFFUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 11/20/2009 | Age: 18 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: Electric Shock |
| Product: Televisions |
| CHEST PAIN, S.O.B. 2ND TO ELECTRICAL SHOCK: CHECKING PICTURE TUBE OF TV WHEN GOT SHOCKED BY TV, UNPLUGGED X 2 WKS, CHEST PAIN, S.O.B. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/16/2009 | Age: 44 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 |
| WATCHING TV AND DEVELOPED SHORTNESS OF BREATH |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/15/2009 | Age: 95 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: Other |
| Product: Televisions, Floors or flooring materials |
| FELL ASLEEP SEATED IN CHAIR WHILE WATCHING TV,FELL FORWARD TO FLOOR--SY NCOPAL EPISODE,ADMIT FOR CARDIAC MONITORING |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 11/07/2009 | Age: 56 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 |
| YESTERDAY SUDDENLY DEVELOPED LT LOWER QUADRANT PAIN WHILE MOVING A TV F OLLOWED BY>>SYNCOPE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/16/2009 | Age: 65 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 |
| WATCHING TV AND DEVELOPED FACIAL DROOP AND SLURRED SPEECH AND HAD A STR OKE |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 10/14/2009 | Age: 2 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 SITTING ON GROUND WATCHING TV, STARTED HAVING SEIZURE,BODY SHAK ING, FLOPPING ON GROUND FOLLOWED BY VOMITING; 1ST TIME SEIZURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/07/2009 | Age: 63 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 |
| SITTING WATCHING TV THEN STOOD UP&SUDDENLY DEVELOPED DIZZINESS/LIGHTHEA DNESS&"ROOM SPINNING">>VERTIGO |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/06/2009 | Age: 40 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 |
| 40 YOM PT HAD A SEIZURE WHILE WATCHING TV. SEIZURE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/03/2009 | Age: 52 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 |
| 52YOF WATCHING TV THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN SHE STARTED TO SHAKE SEIZURE ACT IVITY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/30/2009 | Age: 22 months | 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: Other |
| Product: Televisions |
| 22 MO F WATCHING TV AND STARED OFF INTO SPACE UNRESPONSIVE POSSIBLE SEI ZURE ACTIVITY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/13/2009 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Male | 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 |
| HAD SYNCOPOL EPISODE WHILE WATCHING TV SYNCOPE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/10/2009 | Age: 79 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 |
| WAS WATCHING TV&ACC TOOK 20-30 TAB OF *** 80MG NOW WITH BLURRY VISION>> ACC ING/OD |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 09/10/2009 | Age: 53 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: Other |
| Product: Televisions |
| H/O MS, C/O SUDDEN ONSET OF WORSENING DIZZINESS WHILE WATCHING TV THIS AM>>VERTIGO |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/05/2009 | Age: 6 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 |
| HAD SHORTNESS OF BREATH WHILE WATCHING TELEVISION AT FRIENDS HOUSE SHORTNESS OF BREATH |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/28/2009 | Age: 18 months | 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 |
| WATCHING TV AND HAD A SEIZURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/11/2009 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Electric Shock |
| Product: Televisions |
| HOUSE STRUCK BY LIGHTENING,TOUCHED TV,SHOCKED PICC LINE MALFUNCTION/SH OCKED * |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/07/2009 | Age: 18 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: Other |
| Product: Televisions |
| SUDDEN ONSET OF HYPERVENTILATION, CHEST/THROAT TIGHTNESS AFTER GETTING EMOTIONAL WATCHING A TV COMMERCIAL>>ANXIETY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/24/2009 | Age: 51 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, Stairs or steps |
| WATCHING TV ,STOOD UP AND WALKED UP STAIRS AND WOKE UP ON FLOOR AFTER H AVING SYNCOPAL EPISODE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/19/2009 | Age: 63 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Televisions |
| BIBA FROM A HOTEL, REPORTS WAS WATCHING TV&NEXT THING HE KNOWS CARRIED BY AMBULANCE>>SZ |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/24/2009 | Age: 36 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 |
| ACCID. O.D. OF MED:HEADACHE,R/O MIGRAINE TYPE, WATCHING TELEVISION,HAD INITIAL DOSE ***,TOOK 2 DOSES, C/O HEADACHE SINCE THEN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/24/2009 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | 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 ON FLOOR WATCHING TV, MOM FOUND HIM WITH EYES ROLLING BACK, THE N SLEEPY AFTER; SEIZURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/18/2009 | Age: 64 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attendance is not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Televisions |
| PT AT HOME TV SET CAUGHT FIRE INHALED ELECTRIC THICK SMOKE COUGHING ANO XIA NS IF FD ON SCENE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/24/2009 | Age: 23 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 |
| STATES HE WAS PLUGGING IN HIS TV LAST WEEK AND HAD GOT SHOCKED, HAS HAD A HEADACHE EVER SINCE. DX: HEADACHE* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/23/2009 | Age: 86 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Televisions |
| FELL AGAINST TV. DX: ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME, WEAKNESS, FREQUENT FALLS |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 02/03/2009 | Age: 20 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 |
| H/O SEIZURES, WAS WATCHING TV WITH FRIENDS&ACCORDING TO WITNESSES PT HA D AN EPISODE OF SIEZURES LASTED ONE MINUTE>>SEIZURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/25/2009 | Age: 6 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, Basketball |
| PATIENT WATCHING TV WITH DAD OR PLAYING BASKETBALL WITH DAD IN LIVING R OOM, HAD STARRING SPELL THEN CONVULSING; SEIZURE |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 01/18/2009 | Age: 17 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: Poisoning |
| Product: Televisions |
| SUPPOSED TO BE IN THE ROOM WATCHING TV, DAD WENT TO CHECK ON HIM&FOUND HIM UNRESPONSIVE, H/O INSULIN DEPENDANT DIABETIC>>HYPOGLYCEMIC SZ |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/12/2009 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Televisions |
| INCREASE IN *** 3 DAYS AGO, 1.5 MG DAILY TO 2 MG DAILY, WAS IN BED WATC HING TV, FELT SHORT OF BREATH, HEART PALPITATIONS;TACHYCARDIA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/11/2009 | Age: 73 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Televisions, Tables |
| LITEHEADED, SYMPTOMS BEGAN AFTER MOVING TV FROM LOW TABLE TO FLOOR,TOOK NAP AWOKE LITEHEADE,N&V DX; ACUTE ATAXIA,GENERALIZED WEAKNESS,N&V |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
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