Accidents - Stairs or steps - 50+ years old - Year 2003 - All Of Body

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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,851
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Date: 12/31/2003	Age: 62 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Stairs or steps
PT FELT WEAK, FELL ON STAIRS AT HOME DX: SYNCOPE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/30/2003	Age: 67 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Anoxia
Product: Stairs or steps
PT RUNNING UP SUBWAY STEPS BECAME SHORT OF BREATH DX: SHORTNESS OF BREATH
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 12/20/2003	Age: 53 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Stairs or steps
PT FELL DOWN FLIGHT OF STAIRS AFTER ETOH DRINKING DX:ETOH INTAKE, NECK AND LOW BACK SPRAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/15/2003	Age: 63 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Stairs or steps
PT FELL DOWN UNKNOWN AMOUNT OF STEPS 5 DAYS AGO
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 12/10/2003	Age: 52 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: Stairs or steps
PT WAS AT HOME WHEN SHE FELL DOWN SOME STEPS CAUSING A HER TO COME IN B ECAUSE SHE HAD PAIN "ALL OVER"
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/30/2003	Age: 67 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Stairs or steps
PT PASSED OUT CLIMBING STAIRS DX:SYNCOPE
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 11/29/2003	Age: 52 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Stairs or steps
PT ETOH INTOXICATED FELL ON STEPS CAUSING SHOULDER INJ DX:ETOH INTOX, SHOULDER DISLOCATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/23/2003	Age: 55 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Stairs or steps
CLIMBING STAIRS & FELL BACKWARDS CARDIAC ARREST
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead

Date: 11/23/2003	Age: 70 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Stairs or steps
PT DX ETOH INTOXICATION - S/P FALL FROM STEPS +LOC - C/O HEADACHE S/P ETOH INTAKE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/23/2003	Age: 75 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: Stairs or steps
PT BECAME SHORT OR BREATH WHEN WALKING UP STEPS. HISTORY OF LUNG CA AND CHEMO 10 DAYS AGO. D: ACS, LUNG CANCER. ADMIT.
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 11/17/2003	Age: 56 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Stairs or steps
ALCOHOL INTOXICATION, FACIAL CONTUSION - 56 YOF FELL UP THE STAIRS ON S UNDAY HITTING RIGHT SIDE OF FACE, HAD BEEN DRINKING PRIOR, DRINKS DAILY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/05/2003	Age: 64 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: Stairs or steps
CARDIAC CHEST PAIN & GI BLEED-CHEST PAIN WHILE CLIMBING STAIRS-PT TAKES COUMADIN
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 11/03/2003	Age: 82 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: Stairs or steps
PT GOING UP STAIRS WITH SODA AND PASSED OUT
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 10/24/2003	Age: 52 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Nerve Damage
Product: Stairs or steps
PT FELL DOWN BASEMENT STEPS AT HOME BECAUSE OF HAVING A STROKE
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 10/12/2003	Age: 70 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: Stairs or steps
PT FELL DOWN BASEMENT STEPS FEW DAYS AGO, TODAY, FELL FROM STANDING POS ITION, DX SYNCOPE/DEHYDRATION
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 10/07/2003	Age: 69 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: Stairs or steps
PT C/O SHORTNESS OF BREATH AFTER CLIMBING STAIRS
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 10/03/2003	Age: 64 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Stairs or steps
TRIP ON STAIRS, HIT HEAD ON LANDING SCALP & EYEBROW LAC ETOH INTOX
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/29/2003	Age: 88 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Stairs or steps
ANGINA - 88 YOM WALKING UP STAIRS DEVELOPED C/P, HAD DENTAL WORK DONE T ODAY AND IS ALSO ON AMOXICILLIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/27/2003	Age: 53 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Stairs or steps
PT WAS DRINKING TODAY & WALKING UPSTAIRS & FELL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/22/2003	Age: 81 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: Stairs or steps
PT FELL ON CEMENT STEPS FROM SITTING POSITION DX:SYNCOPE
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 09/08/2003	Age: 62 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: Poisoning
Product: Stairs or steps
PT WAS DRINKING & FELL DOWN STEPS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/31/2003	Age: 90 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Stairs or steps, Doors
AT CAMPGROUND AT 1400, WENT TO CAR TO GET PILLS, WENT UP 5 STEPS IN FRO FRONT DOOR AND FELL, WEAKNESS RIGHT LEG. DX TIA, DYSRYTHMIA.
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 08/31/2003	Age: 85 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Stairs or steps
PT FELL DOWN STEPS AT HOME DX:SYNCOPE/FOOT PAIN
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 08/24/2003	Age: 54 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Stairs or steps
PT C/O WAS WALKING UP THE STAIRS AND FELT WEAK IN HER LEGS FELL TO GROUND IN BEDROOM + LOC.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/15/2003	Age: 70 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: Stairs or steps
SYNCOPE - SYNCOPE AFTER GOING UP AND DOWN BASEMENT STAIRS
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 08/14/2003	Age: 78 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: Stairs or steps
GOING UP STAIRS- NAUSEA & PASSED OUT. PT IN FROM MISSOURI SYNCOPE- PROB. VASOVAGAL OR VOLUME DEPLETION FROM TRAVELING
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 08/04/2003	Age: 78 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Stairs or steps
SOB. PT BECAME SHORT OF BREATH WHEN CLIMBING STEPS.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/29/2003	Age: 89 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Stairs or steps
GOT WEAK, FELL ON STAIRS DX. SYNCOPE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/19/2003	Age: 57 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: Poisoning
Product: Stairs or steps
FELL DOWN STEPS ETOH INTOXICATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/18/2003	Age: 60 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: Stairs or steps
PT FELL DOWN THE STAIRS, HAD BEEN DRINKING
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/13/2003	Age: 80 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: Stairs or steps
FELL ON CHURCH STEPS DX. SYNCOPE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/12/2003	Age: 81 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Stairs or steps
STARTED ON ARICEPT SIX DAYS AGO, SON-IN-LAW FOUND HER AT TOP OF STEPS AT HOME FRIGHTENED, PARANOID. DX ADVERSE DRUG EFFECT, EARLY DEMENTIA.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/23/2003	Age: 91 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: Stairs or steps, Rugs or carpets
PT FELL DOWN CARPETED STEPS AT HOME DX:SYNCOPE
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 06/22/2003	Age: 71 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Stairs or steps
71YOM ARRIVED HOME FROM PARK, WALKED UP STEPS, EXTREMELY SOB. DX: RESPI RATORY ARREST
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 06/11/2003	Age: 53 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: Stairs or steps
53 YO M FOUND LYING AT BOTTOM OF STEPS. DX ETOH INTOXICATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/06/2003	Age: 79 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Stairs or steps
WALKED UP STAIRS, DEVELPED SHORTNESS OF BREATH DX: EXERTIONAL DYSPNEA
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/02/2003	Age: 80 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Stairs or steps
80 YOF WAS GOING UP STEPS AND FELL BACKWARDS ONTO SIDEWALK., MULTIPLE CONTUSIONS.
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 05/31/2003	Age: 61 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Stairs or steps
PT MISSED A STEP FELL INJURUNG HEAD AFTER ETOH INTAKE DX:ETOH INTOX, HEAD CONTUSION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/16/2003	Age: 81 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Stairs or steps
PT. FELL DOWN SOME STEPS AT HOME ON TUESDAY. DX. DIZZINESS DEHYDRATION , WEAKNESS.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/15/2003	Age: 62 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Stairs or steps
PT FELL DOWN SEVERAL STEPS AT HOME AFTER 7 BEERS, CAUSING FACIAL INJ DX:FOREHEA LAC, ETOH INTAKE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/04/2003	Age: 57 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Stairs or steps
FELL APPROX. 9 STEPS AT * BALLPARK(*) NO LOC. +ETOH. C/O HEADA CHE. DX. MINOR HEAD CONT. ETOH INTOXICATION.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/01/2003	Age: 75 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Stairs or steps
PT STATES HE HAD 3 MARTINIS THEN TRIPPED AND STUMBLED UP THE STEPS FELT DIZZY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/26/2003	Age: 75 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Stairs or steps
PT FELL BACKWARD FROM 4 STEPS ELEVATION - DX *** TOXICITY.
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 03/14/2003	Age: 90 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Stairs or steps, Trays
FELL DOWN 2 STAIRS WHILE CARRYING FOOD TRAY UP THE STAIRS ? VASOVAGAL SYNCOPE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/02/2003	Age: 73 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Stairs or steps
GOT WEAK CLIMBING STAIRS DX. SYNCOPE
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 02/22/2003	Age: 74 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Stairs or steps
PT CLAIMS PASSING OUT, FALLING DOWN 7 STEPS. ASKED TO BE TRANSFERRED TO ***.
Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital

Date: 02/08/2003	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: Stairs or steps
SOB. PT BECAME SHORT OF BREATH WHEN CLIMBING STEPS.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/07/2003	Age: 59 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: Stairs or steps
FELL ON STEPS DX. WEAKNESS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/03/2003	Age: 54 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: Stairs or steps
WAS GOING DOWN STEPS HAD SYNCOPE EPISODE AND FELL DOWN STEPS...SYNCOPE, FALL
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 01/15/2003	Age: 65 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: Stairs or steps
65 YO M FELL ON STAIRS, R HAND INJURY, +ETOH. DX ALCOHOL INTOXICATION, LACERATION TO R MIDDLE FINGER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/14/2003	Age: 52 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Stairs or steps
PT BBECAME SHORTOF BREATH WHEN CLIMBING STAIRS DX:SHORTNESS OF BREATH
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 01/11/2003	Age: 97 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: Stairs or steps
PULMONARY EMBOLIS, CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE WITH HYPOXEMIA, SHORT OF BREATH FOR PAST 2 WEEKS, FELL BACKWARDS DOWN STEPS 2 WKS AGO
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 01/09/2003	Age: 53 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Stairs or steps
PT PASSED OUT & FELL DOWN STEPS AT HOME INTOXICATED
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/08/2003	Age: 63 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: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Stairs or steps
63 YO F FELL DOWN STEPS MULTIPLE CONTUSION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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