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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 685
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/29/2002 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Computers |
| PT.INJ.SCALP AT AUNTS HOUSE WHEN VIDEO GAME FELL & HIT HIS HEAD. DX; LA C.SCALP. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/29/2002 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Computers |
| PT HIT HEAD ON COMPUTER; SCALP LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/13/2002 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Computers |
| GRADUAL ONSET OF OCCIPITAL HEADACHE AND FELT DIZZY WHILE WORKING ON COM PUTER LOOKING UP WEBSITES AT HOWE. DX: CEPHALGIA UNCLEAR ETIOLOGY. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/04/2002 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Computers |
| VIDEO GAME CONSOLE FELL ON PT HEAD NO LOC. DX SCALP LACERATION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/31/2002 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Computers |
| 9 YO MALE HIT IN HEAD WITH *** CARTRIDGE LACERATION REPAIR LACERATION REPAIR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/28/2002 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Computers |
| HIT COMPUTER; CLOSED HEAD INJ |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/24/2002 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Computers |
| PT WITH PLAAY STATION FALLING HITTING PT ON TOP OF HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/15/2002 | Age: 11 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: Other |
| Product: Computers |
| CHILD WITH HEADACHE. STARTED WHEN PLAYING ***. D: HEADACHE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/27/2002 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Computers |
| THROWING AND STRUGGLING WITH BROTHER WHO THREW A "GAME BOY" HIT PT ON HEAD - LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/24/2002 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Computers |
| LACERATION TO SCALP FROM VIDEO GAME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/04/2002 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Computers |
| PT HIT HEAD OFF OF A SCOREBOARD AT AN ARCADE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/28/2002 | Age: 6 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: Other |
| Product: Computers |
| CHILD, WELL YESTERDAY, HAD SUDDEN HEADACHE, NECK PAIN WHILE PLAYING *** . D: BRAIN TUMOR, HYDROCEPHALUS ADMIT. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 03/23/2002 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Computers |
| PATIENT HIT HEAD ON COMPUTER. DX: CONTUSION TO HEAD. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/02/2002 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Computers |
| HEAD LAC, PT LOST BALANCE, FELL & STRUCK A COMPUTER AT HOME, C/O P AIN, NO LOC OR VOMIT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/23/2002 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Computers |
| STRUCK IN HEAD WITH BAMEBOY GAME 1.5 INCH SCALP LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/18/2002 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Computers |
| BUMPED HEAD ON SIDE OF A COMPUTER AT SCHOOL, CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/07/2002 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Computers |
| PATIENT HAVING MIGRAINE HEADACHE WHILE PLAYING VIDEO GAME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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