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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 603
See also: Lethal accidents, Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 11/23/2003 | Age: 65 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Wheelchairs |
| PT THREW SELF OUT OF WHEELCHAIR, HAD BEEN DRINKING FOR 2 DAYS, FELL IN ALLEY, DX ALCOHOL INTOXICATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/10/2003 | Age: 88 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Wheelchairs |
| VERTIGO. PT BECAME DIZZY WHEN STANDING FROM A WHEELCHAIR AT *** |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/03/2003 | Age: 65 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: Poisoning |
| Product: Wheelchairs |
| WHILE IN WHEELCHAIR, PT ACCIDENTALLY FELL WHILE AT STORE, DX ACUTE ETOH INTOXICATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/01/2003 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Wheelchairs, Floors or flooring materials |
| PT FOUND DOWN ON FLOOR STRAPPED TO WHEELCHAIR FOR 4 DAYS |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 10/27/2003 | Age: 68 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Wheelchairs |
| PATIENT W/CHRONIC PAIN, WHEELCHAIR-BOUND AT HOME, TROUBLE BREATHING, ON INSULIN, HAS BLOOD SUGAR OF 33. DX INSULIN RXN, DM, LT LEG PAIN, ANE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/26/2003 | Age: 87 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Wheelchairs |
| NH PT W/ASHD, TYPE 2 DM, STARTED ON *** 20 MG DAILY DUE TO LEG EDEMA & SOB, LEG EDEMA PERSISTED DESPITE MEDS, USES WHEELCHAIR. EDEMA/CHF |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 10/06/2003 | Age: 79 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Wheelchairs, Floors or flooring materials |
| PT. STATES HE SLID OUT OF WHEELCHAIR ONTO BOTTOM AND LAID DOWN ON FLOOR . DX. WEAKNESS, LOWER GI BLEED. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 07/26/2003 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Wheelchairs |
| 54 YOM - TIPPED OVER MOTORIZED WHEELCHAIR, C/O ALL OVER PAIN DX - *** OVERDOSE, LLL PNEUMONIA AND EFFUSION, HYPOXIA AND RESP ACIDOSIS |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 06/30/2003 | Age: 84 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Wheelchairs, Chair, recliner |
| 84 Y.O.W.M. GOT UP FROM WHEELCHAIR AND WALKED TO RECLINER AND HAD SYNCO PAL EPISODE AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 06/01/2003 | Age: 65 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Wheelchairs |
| FELL FROM WHEELCHAIR AT NH DX. CVA |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 05/24/2003 | Age: 85 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Wheelchairs, Bathtubs or showers |
| PT FELL TRANSFERRING FROM WHEELCHAIR TO BATHTUB. DX: UTI, INCREASED EPISODES TIA. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 04/22/2003 | Age: 66 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Wheelchairs |
| PTBECAME DIZZY WITH BACK PAIN ALMOST FALLING OUT OF WHEEL CHAIR WHILE WAITING IN PHARMACY DX: DIZZINESS/BACK PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/21/2003 | Age: 82 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Wheelchairs |
| 82 YOFC WHO HAS FALLEN OUT OF HER WHEELCHAIR A COUPLE OF TIMES TODAY A ND NOW IS LETHARGIC/ LETHARGIC |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 03/15/2003 | Age: 63 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Wheelchairs |
| PEA. FELL FROM WHEELCHAIR THEN CODED AND WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD IN ER. |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 03/07/2003 | Age: 73 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: Wheelchairs |
| PT C/O BURNING ACROSS CHEST/UPPER ABD, LT. FLANK. ON ANTICOAGULATION RX PT. IN WHEELCHAIR AND IS LIFTED BY SON-IN-LAW. DX.TOXICITY OF ANTICOAGU |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/28/2003 | Age: 60 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Wheelchairs |
| 60 Y/O F C/O FALL. PT FELL OUT OF WHEELCHAIR. DX HYPERGLYCEMIA. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 02/22/2003 | 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: Nerve Damage |
| Product: Wheelchairs, Day wear |
| FELL GETTING OUT OF WHEELCHAIR AND THEN WHILE PUTTING ON PANTS;ADMIT FO R NEUROLOGICAL TESTING FOR NERVE DAMAGE |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
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