Accidents - Stairs or steps - 50+ years old - Year 2008 - All Of Body

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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,414
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Date: 12/26/2008	Age: 59 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
WALKING UP THREE FLITES OF STAIRS AND BECAME SHORT OF BREATH
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/20/2008	Age: 70 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: Stairs or steps
70 YO M CARDIAC ARREST PT TRIPPED AND FELL DOWN 12 STEPS AT FAMILY GATHERING*
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead

Date: 12/08/2008	Age: 78 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
78 Y FELL DOWNSTAIRS SYNCOPE
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 12/02/2008	Age: 91 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
MULTIPLE TRAUMA.PT FELL DOWN THE STAIRS.
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 11/30/2008	Age: 67 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
DX NEAR SYNCOPE/PNEUMONIA/VAGINAL SPOT'G: @ HOME GO'G TO GO UPSTAIRS BECAME LT-HEADED & LEG WEAKNESS AND FELL. PT HAND PALPITATIONS.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/28/2008	Age: 52 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Stairs or steps
PAIN ALL OVER THE BODY AFTER FELL DOWN 12 STEPS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/24/2008	Age: 71 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: Other
Product: Stairs or steps
71 YO FELL ON STAIRS SYNCOPE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/23/2008	Age: 52 years	Sex: Male	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
MULTIPLE CONTUSIONS.PT FELL DOWN STEPS.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/19/2008	Age: 89 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, Floors or flooring materials
DIZZY AND FELL DOWN SIX STAIRS,LOST CONSCIOUSNESS,WOKE UP ON FLOOR,ADMI T FOR SYNCOPE
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 11/11/2008	Age: 63 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, Tablet or capsule drugs
PT FELL DOWN STEPS, ALSO FELLOUT OF BED, ADMITS TAKING 6 *** PRIORTO AC CIDENT DX: SYNCOPE, KNEE, HIP PAIN AND PAIN IN SIDE
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 10/30/2008	Age: 71 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
71 YOF WAS SOB WHILE WALKING UP STAIRS SHORT OF BREATH
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 10/28/2008	Age: 58 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 A FLIGHT OF STEPS. DX; PAIN ALL OVER
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 10/12/2008	Age: 72 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: Other
Product: Stairs or steps
DX SYNCOPE/ACUTE RENAL FAILURE ARF/HYPERMAGNESMIA: FELL DOWN 1 STEP ON FRI BECAUSE HE MISSED THE LAST STEP. W INITIAL BIL BACK PAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/03/2008	Age: 70 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
SYNCOPE. FELT DIZZY WHILE WALKING ON THE STAIRS AT HOME & FELL. HTN. DM
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 09/25/2008	Age: 76 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 ATTEMPTED TO CLIMB STAIRS AT HOME, GOT LIGHTHEADED, PASSED OUT, DX N EAR SYNCOPE
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 09/20/2008	Age: 79 years	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Stairs or steps
PT GOING DOWN STEPS WHEN FELT LIGHTHEADED & FELL.C/O LOW BACK PAIN X 2W KS.HAS HAD NAUSEA & VOMITING.D:SYNCOPAL EVENT,NAUSEA/VOMITING ADMIT
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 09/18/2008	Age: 53 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
MULTIPLE CONTUSION.PT FELL DOWN 13 STEPS IN DARK.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/18/2008	Age: 66 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: Other
Product: Stairs or steps
RUNNING FOR TRAIN,TRIPPED ON STAIRS AND FAINTED,==SYNCOPE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/15/2008	Age: 61 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
MULTIPLE TRAUMA.PT FELL DOWN 10 STEPS.
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 09/15/2008	Age: 73 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
MULTIPLE CONTUSIONS.PT TRIPPED ON A STEP AND FELL.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/08/2008	Age: 61 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: Other
Product: Stairs or steps
CLIMBED FIVE FLITES OF STAIRS RESULTING IN PALPITATIONS, SHORTNESS OF B REATH, ADMIT FOR OBSERVATION
Disposition: Held for observation

Date: 09/08/2008	Age: 81 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: Other
Product: Stairs or steps
81 YO GOING UP STAIRS BECAME DIZZY SYNCOPE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/08/2008	Age: 66 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
RUNNING FOR TRAIN AND TRIPPED ON STAIRS AND SYNCOPIZED
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/05/2008	Age: 52 years	Sex: Male	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
PT SUSTAINED CONTUSIONS ALL OVER BODY AFTER FALLING DOWN STAIRS*
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/17/2008	Age: 87 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Stairs or steps
MULTIPLE LACERATIONS.PT WAS WALKING UP THE STAIRS AND LOST BALANCE AND FELL.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/16/2008	Age: 73 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
73 YO FEMALE WAS SOB WHILE GOING UP STAIRS SOB
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/08/2008	Age: 52 years	Sex: Male	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
MULTIPE CONTUSIONS.PT FELL DOWN THE STAIRS.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/04/2008	Age: 64 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
MULTIPLE ABRASIONS/CONTUSIONS.PT FELL DOWN 3 STEPS.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/02/2008	Age: 86 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
MULTIPLE TRAUMA.PT FELL DOWN THE STAIRS.
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 08/02/2008	Age: 51 years	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Stairs or steps
PT FELL BACKWARDS ON THE STAIRS AND HIT HER BACK AND BUTTOCKS DX MUSCULOSKELATAL PAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/17/2008	Age: 54 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
CLIMBING STAIRS AND FELT SHORT OF BREATH
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/12/2008	Age: 69 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
MULTIPLE CONTUSIONS.PT FELL DOWN THE STAIRS.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/12/2008	Age: 61 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
FOUND AT BOTTOM OF STAIRS IN CARDIAC ARREST AND MULT TRAUMA, DEFIBULATE D
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 07/03/2008	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: Other
Product: Stairs or steps
RUSHED UPSTAIRS IN THE HEAT AND BECAME LIGHTHEADED
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/19/2008	Age: 58 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Stairs or steps
58 YO FEMALE WAS SOB GOING UP STAIRS SOB
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/17/2008	Age: 56 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, Tablet or capsule drugs
PT OD ON BENZOAS AND OTHER UNK MEDS AND FELL DOWN A FLIGHT OF STEPS
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 06/17/2008	Age: 88 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 1 STEP AND IS DIZZY
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 06/06/2008	Age: 71 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
71 YO F FOUND AT BOTTOM OF STEPS BLEEDING FROM NECK IN CARDIAC ARREST PT HAS HISTORY OF NECK CANCER POSSIBLE BLEED TO DEATH*
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead

Date: 05/12/2008	Age: 66 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: Other
Product: Stairs or steps
66 YO MALE WAS SOB WALKING UP THREE FLIGHTS OF STAIRS SOB
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 05/11/2008	Age: 58 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
PT C/O OF 5-6 SYNCOPAL EPISODES OVER 2 WKS. SOMETIMES ASSOCIATED W/ CLI MBING STAIRS. ALSO C/O ELBOW PAIN. D:SYNCOPE, ELBOW PAIN. ADMIT.
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 05/02/2008	Age: 89 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
MULTIPLE CONTUSIONS.PT FELL DOWN SOME STEPS.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/30/2008	Age: 78 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: Other
Product: Stairs or steps
LEGS GAVE OUT WHILE WALKING DOWN STAIRS&FELL, BROUGHT IN FOR EVALUATION >> MEDICAL EVALUATION S/P FALL/WEAKNESS
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 04/21/2008	Age: 65 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
CLIMBING STAIRS AT HOME AND FELT FAINT SYNCOPE *
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 03/30/2008	Age: 55 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
FELL DOWN FLIGHT OF STAIRS LYING ON GROUND FOR THREE HOURS -CONFUSED
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/16/2008	Age: 64 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attendance is not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Stairs or steps, Fire or smoke alarms
64 YO FEMALE WAS WALKING DOWN STEPS DURING FIRE ALARM PALPITATIONS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/05/2008	Age: 83 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: Other
Product: Stairs or steps
WALKED UP THREE FLIGHTS OF STAIRS TO HIS ACCOUNTANT'S OFFICE AND HAC SY NCOPAL EPISODE OF FAINTING AND SHORTNESS OF BREATH
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 02/22/2008	Age: 61 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
HURT ALL OVER SLIPPED ON STEPS LEFT WITH OUT TREATMENT #
Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA)

Date: 02/21/2008	Age: 62 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, Paints, varnishes or shellacs
PT WAS PAINTING HIS STEPS IN THE FRONT YARD AND GOT UP AND FELT DIZZY AND PASSED OUT TREATED FOR SYNCOPE
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 02/17/2008	Age: 87 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
DIZZY AND FELL DOWN 13 STAIRS FROM TOP==BEING ADMITTED FOR SYNCOPE
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 02/07/2008	Age: 65 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Stairs or steps
65 YO FEMALE PASSED OUT ON STEPS SYNCOPE
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 02/07/2008	Age: 87 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
PT GOT UP QUICKLY AND WALKED UP A FLIHT OF STAIRS AND ALMOST PASSED OUT SYNCOPE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/31/2008	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: Other
Product: Stairs or steps
PT WALKED UP A FLIGTH OF STAIRS AND WHEN HE GOT TO THE TOP HE ALMOST PA SSED OUT TREATED FOR NEAR SYNCOPE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/15/2008	Age: 60 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: Other
Product: Stairs or steps
PT PASSED OUT WALKING UP 16 STEPS C/O WHEEZING DX: SYNCOPE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/14/2008	Age: 83 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Stairs or steps
83 YO FEMALE WAS SHORT OF BREATH WALKING DOWN STAIRS SOB
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 01/07/2008	Age: 51 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Stairs or steps, Alcohol
ETOH INTOXICATION-FELL DOWN 8 STEPS DUE TO ETOH-@ HOME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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