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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 341
See also: Lethal accidents, Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/13/2008 | Age: 85 years | Sex: Female | 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: Submersion |
| Product: Swimming pools |
| PATIENT JUMPED INTO A COLD POOL TO SAVE HUSBAND WHO HAD BEEN MISSING FOR AN HALF AN HOURS. DX-COLD WATER IMMERSION, NO SIGNIFICANT INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/05/2008 | Age: 62 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Swimming pools, Diving or diving boards |
| PT DOVE INTO A SWIMMING POOL AND NEVER CAME UP FOUND AT THE BOTTOM NEA R DROWNING |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 06/24/2008 | Age: 69 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: Swimming pools |
| 69 YO MALE WAS WALKING FROM POOL AND PASSED OUT AND FELL POSTURAL SYNCOPE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/19/2008 | Age: 69 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Swimming pools |
| PT AT SONS HOUSE FOUND AT THE BOTOM OF A SWIMMING POOL NEAR DROWNING- I DIABETIC WITH A BLOOD GLUCOSE OF 20 HYPOGLYCEMIA PROMTED DROWNING |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 02/24/2008 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Swimming pools |
| RECENT RELEASE PSYCH FACILITY-FOUND BY HOMEOWNERS IN THEIR POOL UNCONSC IOUS DX: DROWNING,ASYSTOLIC ARREST EXPIRED |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 02/06/2008 | Age: 57 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: Swimming pools |
| PT FELL A WEEK AGO STRIKING HEAD ON THE POOL DECK AND SINCE THEN HAVING DIZZINESS DX VERTIGO |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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