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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,096
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/23/2002 | Age: 12 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Balloons |
| PATIENT HAD HEART PALPITATIONS AFTER BLOWING UP BALLOONS YESTERDAY; PAL PITATIONS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/15/2002 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Balloons, Floors or flooring materials |
| DX:FACIAL CONTUSION. JUMPING FOR BALLOONS ON HARD WOOD FLOOR SLIPPED AND FELL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/02/2002 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Balloons |
| PATIENT BLEW UP A BALLOON, RASH APPEARED ON FACE AFTER; ECZEMA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/30/2002 | Age: 15 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Balloons |
| PT WAS HIT IN THE EYE BY A BALLOON THAT WAS THROWN AT CLOSE DISTANCE WH ILE PLAYING AT SCHOOL. D: ACUTE EYE PAIN LEFT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/07/2002 | Age: 15 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Balloons, Scissors |
| CUT FOREARM WHEN POPPING BALLOON WITH SCISSORS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/29/2002 | Age: 10 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: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Balloons |
| PT PLYING AND WAS HIT IN EYE AND NOSE WITH A WATER BALLOON DX CHIT AND ORBITAL FX |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/24/2002 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Balloons, Slingshots or sling-propelled toys |
| STRUCK IN THE RIGHT EYE WITH A WATER BALLOON LAUNCHED FROM A GIANT SLINGSHOT. DX BLUNT TRAUMA OF RIGHT EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/04/2002 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Balloons |
| CORNEAL ABRASION (L) EYEBALL, PT STRUCK WITH A BALLOON FULL OF WATER AT THE PARK, C/O PAIN & SUBCONJUNCTIVAL HEMORRHAGE, NO LOC. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/04/2002 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Concussion |
| Product: Balloons, Slingshots or sling-propelled toys |
| HIT BY WATER BALLON FIRED FROM SLINGSHOT DX. CONCUSSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/30/2002 | Age: 12 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Balloons |
| HIT IN EYE W/ WATER BALOON. STATES BLURRED VISION. DX; LT EYE CONT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/30/2002 | Age: 15 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Neck | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Balloons |
| PATIENT WITH PREVIOUS C6 NECK FX, HIT ON BACK OF NECK BY WATER BALLOON LAST NIGHT, HAVING NECK PAIN; NECK PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/24/2002 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Balloons |
| HIT BY WATER BALLOON THROWN BY ANOTHER CHILD/ CONTUSION ABDOMEN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/23/2002 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Internal | Diagnosis: Ingested Object |
| Product: Balloons |
| INGESTION OF FB, PT SWALLOWED A BALLOON AT HOME, NO SOB OR PAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/08/2002 | Age: 6 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: Hand | Diagnosis: Not Stated Or Unknown |
| Product: Balloons |
| C/O OF HAND WAS RUN OVER BY LARGE PLASTIC/RUBBER BALLOON AT PARK, DX HA ND EXAM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/08/2002 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Arm | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Balloons |
| PLAYING WITH INFLATABLE LARGE BALLON AND FELL. WAS AT FATHERS COMPANYPI CNIC. SPRAIN TO LT SHOULDER/LT ARM. DO NOT CONTACT PATIENT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/02/2002 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Balloons |
| PT'S GRANDMOTHER STATES CHILD WAS BLOWING UP A BALLOON AND RIGHT SIDE OF FACE BEGAN TO SWELL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/02/2002 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Internal | Diagnosis: Ingested Object |
| Product: Balloons |
| SWALLOWED TIP OF BALLOON |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/30/2002 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Balloons |
| PLAYING WITH WATER BALLOONS,JUMPED OVER BUSHES AND FELL HITTING HEAD;UN CONSCIOUS;SKULL FX,EPIDURAL HEMATOMA NOW |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 05/30/2002 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Balloons |
| PT BLOWING UP BALLOON PASSED OUT HITTING HEAD ON GROUND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/18/2002 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Balloons |
| L CORNEAL ABRAS; HIT IN EYE BY WATER BALLOON |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/16/2002 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Dislocation |
| Product: Balloons |
| DISLOCATION L RING FINGER - BENT FINGER BACKWARDS IN A WATER BALLOON FI GHT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/10/2002 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Internal | Diagnosis: Ingested Object |
| Product: Balloons |
| SWALLOWED PART OF BALLOON/SWALLOWED FB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/05/2002 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Balloons |
| PT HAD A WATER BALLOON TOSSED AT HER EXPLODING AFTER STRIKING LEFT EYEA BRASION EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/05/2002 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Balloons |
| PT HERE FOR SYNCOPE EPISODE AFTER SUCKING HELUIM FROM A BALLOON,HE PASS ED OUT AND BUMPED HEADS WITH ANOTHER CHILD,HEAD TRAUMA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/04/2002 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Balloons |
| OLDER KID PLAYING WITH BALLOON, PT STRUCK IN EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/02/2002 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Balloons |
| BALLOON POPPED IN EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/01/2002 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Balloons, Christmas tree stands or supports |
| WHILE CHASING BALLOON SWUNG ARMS AND HIT HAND ON X-MAS TREE STAND THAT WAS HANGING ON WALL DX 5TH DIGIT LT HAND LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/20/2002 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Neck | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Balloons |
| STRAINED NECK WHEN JUMPING ON BALLOON |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/10/2002 | Age: 12 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Hematoma |
| Product: Balloons, Cabinets, racks, room dividers and shelves |
| CHURCH FUNCTION BLIND FOLDED AND SEARCHING FOR BALLOONS HIT HEAD ON BOO KSHELF DX MINOR HEAD INJURY FOREHEAD HEMATOMA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/08/2002 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Internal | Diagnosis: Aspirated Object |
| Product: Balloons, Hot tubs or home spas |
| MAY HAVE SWALLOWED RUBBER BALLOON THAT WAS FLOATING IN *** HE WAS SWIMM ING IN. DX IMPENDING UPPER AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 03/24/2002 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Balloons |
| PT SCRATCHED BY BALOON WEIGHT AT FRIENDS, EYE IRRITATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/13/2002 | Age: 12 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Internal | Diagnosis: Aspirated Object |
| Product: Balloons |
| ASPIRATED FLOUR FROM FLOUR FILLED BALLOON |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/06/2002 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Internal | Diagnosis: Ingested Object |
| Product: Balloons |
| 8-YOM SWALLOWED A BALLOON. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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