Accidents - 50+ years old - Year 2008 - Internal

Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 2,373
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other body parts.

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Accidents - Related Products:

Foods:	251
Toothpicks or hor d'oeuvres picks:	242
Other glass bottles or jars:	198
Self-contained openers:	163
Jewelry:	159
Flatware:	150
Heating or cooling comfort packs:	96
Plastic wrapping products:	90
Coins:	88
First aid equipment:	88
Wallpaper:	87
Tableware and accessories:	80
Automotive chemicals:	80
Bleaches:	80
Bottles or jars:	80
Towels or cloths:	71
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records

Date: 12/24/2008	Age: 63 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Aspirated Object
Product: Plastic wrapping products
PILL WRAPPER STRUCK IN THROAT ONSET AN HOUR AGO, CAN'T SWALLOW WATER. S/P CHOKED ON PILL WRAPPER*
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/21/2008	Age: 52 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Flatware
PT DX BIBEMS FROM PSYCH UNIT - S/P PT SSTATES "HE SWALLOWED A METAL SPOON YESTERDAY.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/13/2008	Age: 56 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Foods, Toothpicks or hor d'oeuvres picks
PT SWALLOWED A PIECE OF CHICKEN WITH A TOOTHPICK IN IT VOMITED BLOOD DX/ TOOTHPICK INGESTION
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 12/01/2008	Age: 58 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Bleaches
PT SWALLOWED A BLEACHING TRAY FOR TEETH DX; ESOPHAGEAL FOREIGN BODY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/29/2008	Age: 62 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Other glass bottles or jars
62 YOM SWALLOWED SMALL AMOUNT OF GLASS FROM BROKEN MAYONNAISE JAR IN SANDWICH - INGESTED GLASS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/21/2008	Age: 86 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Aspirated Object
Product: Toothpicks or hor d'oeuvres picks
A WEEK AGO WAS CHEWING ON A FLAT TOOTHPICK&ACCIDENTALLY SWOLLOWED A PIE CE OF IT, NOW WITH THROAT FOREIGN BODY SENSATION EVER SINCE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/20/2008	Age: 75 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Flatware
PT AT GROUP HOME SWALLOWED A PIECE OF A PLASTIC SPOON DX// FB INGESTION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/12/2008	Age: 69 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Aspirated Object
Product: Foods, Beds or bedframes
69YO WHITE FEMALE AT REHAB CLINIC EATING PEANUTS-ALMOST FELL OFF BED +LOC,FOREIGN BODY IN THROAT,(PEANUTS)DX CARDIAC ARREST -
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 11/08/2008	Age: 73 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Self-contained openers
ACCIDENTLY SWALLOWED A POP CAN TOP/ ACCIDENTAL INGESTION OF METAL FB
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/25/2008	Age: 70 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Glass tubing or test tubes, Foods
70 YOM WAS DRINKING JUICE FROM MIXING CUP BROUGHT FROM HOME AND FOUND A TIP OF GLASS AMPULE IN BOTTOM OF CUP, POSSIBLY SWALLOWED GLASS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/23/2008	Age: 57 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Foods, Desk supplies
PT WAS EATING SOME SHRIMP AND POSSIBLY INGESTED PIECE OF STAPLE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/22/2008	Age: 58 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Combs or hairbrushes
WHILE BRUSHING HAIR FEW DAYS AGO, PT SWALLOWED A "HAIR BALL"
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/16/2008	Age: 78 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Jewelry
78 YOF SWALLOWED A BRACELET INGESTED F/B
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/11/2008	Age: 65 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Flatware, Basketball
HAD PLASTIC FORK IN MOUTH; WAS PLAYING BASKETBALL; ACCIDENTALLY SWALLOW ED PLASTIC FORK. INGESTION OF FOREIGN OBJECT.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/11/2008	Age: 74 years	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Plastic wrapping products
74 YOF STATES SHE FEELS LIKE THERE IS A PIECE OF PLASTIC WRAP STUCK IN HER THROAT, INGESTION OCCURRED LAST NIGHT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/08/2008	Age: 72 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Tablet or capsule drugs, Floors or flooring materials
FELT PILL STUCK IN THROAT; HEAD ABRASION AFTER FAINTING,HITTING FLOOR. SWALLOWING JUICE;THEN PASSED OUT. PILL STUCK IN ESOPHAGUS
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 10/03/2008	Age: 53 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Other glass bottles or jars
53Y/O,M,UNSURE IF INGESTED GLASS FROM CRACKED GLASS, MILD HEMORRHOIDAL BLEEDING, ?GLASS INGESTION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/29/2008	Age: 61 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Aspirated Object
Product: Tableware and accessories, Toothpicks or hor d'oeuvres picks
PT WAS DRINKING A CUP OF COFFEE AND THERE WAS A TOOTHPICK IN IT SWALLOW ED IT LODGED IN THROAT UNABLE TO SWALLOW FB ASPIRATION
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 09/21/2008	Age: 66 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Self-contained openers
PT PUT THE METAL TAB OF A *** CAN INTO THE CAN AND SWALLOWED IT AS HE W AS DRINKING THE SODA FB INGESTION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/20/2008	Age: 54 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks
PT SUS FB AFTER SWALLOWING WING NUT%
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/26/2008	Age: 64 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Hearing aids
PT SUS FOREIGN BODY DUE TO ACCIDENTAL INGESTION OF HEARING AID%
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/24/2008	Age: 66 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Drinking glasses
PT THINKS SHE SWALLOWED A PIECE OF GLASS FROM CHIPPED DRINKING GLASS D X - INGESTED F/B
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/21/2008	Age: 68 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Drinking glasses
68 YOF SWALLOWED A PIECE OF A BROKEN GLASS AT CASINO F/B ESOPHAGUS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/14/2008	Age: 53 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Coins, Alcohol
INGESTED FB - GI TRACT - 53 YO MALE PRESENTS AFTER PLAYING DRINKING GAM E WITH ALCOHOL AND QUARTERS - SWALLOWED A QUARTER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/12/2008	Age: 51 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Aspirated Object
Product: First aid equipment
TRANSIENT CHOKING: DENTAL WORK TODAY, CHOKED ON GAUZE PAD, SQUAD CALLED "FIISHED OUT 4 GAUZE PADS, THOUGHT SAW ON GO DOWN" NO EVIDENCE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/29/2008	Age: 51 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Coins
PT ACCIDENTALLY SWALLOWED A PENNY & A NICKEL, DEVELOPED LWR SUB-STERNAL EPIGASTRIC BURNING & PAIN. DX - PROBABLE GASTRIC FOREIGN BODY
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 07/25/2008	Age: 81 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Aspirated Object
Product: Toothpicks or hor d'oeuvres picks
FOREIGN BODY IN THROAT FROM SWALLOWING WOODEN TOOTH PICK. DX-ACUTE SWALLOWED FOREIGN BODY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/16/2008	Age: 73 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Bottles or jars
SWALLOWED TOOTHPASTE CAP, DX; FB THROAT, S/P SPONTANEOUS DISLODGEMENT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/15/2008	Age: 54 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Aspirated Object
Product: Foods, Floors or flooring materials
CHOKED ON A PIECE OF ROAST BEEF, FELL AND HIT BACK OF HEAD ON THE FLOOR LOC-3-4 MIN. DX-CHOKING, CHI.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/15/2008	Age: 55 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Glass bottles or jars
DRANK FROM GLASS BOTTLE THIS AM, WAS BROKEN, WORRIED SHE SWALLOWED GLASS DX; FB INGESTION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/02/2008	Age: 89 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Aspirated Object
Product: Beds or bedframes
WASN'T ABLE TO SIT UP IN HER BED ON HER OWN,+NAUSE&VOMITING, FOUND LYIN G IN HER OWN VOMIT>>RULE ASPIRATION PNUEMONIA
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 06/30/2008	Age: 52 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins
PT SWOLLOWED A HAIRPIN CLIP DX; METAL CLIP IN GI TRACT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/24/2008	Age: 55 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Aspirated Object
Product: Tablet or capsule drugs, Beds or bedframes
55 YOF WAS SUCKING ON *** WHILE IN BED, NOW C/O FOREIGN BODY SENSATION IN THROAT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/06/2008	Age: 52 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Automotive chemicals
52 YO M INGESTION OF RADIATOR STOP LEAK CONFLICTING STORY POSSIBLE INTENTIONAL INGESTION POSSIBLE SPILL INTO MOUTH*
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 05/31/2008	Age: 55 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks
PT WORKING AT HOME AND HAD SEVERAL SMALL NAILS IN MOUTH AND SWALLOWED O NE FB INGESTION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/26/2008	Age: 64 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Towels or cloths, Medical equipment, general
PT STATES THAT HE HAD A PIECE OF DENTURE ADHESIVE IN THE BACK OF HIS TH ROAT & TOOK A WASH CLOTH TO TRY TO REMOVE IT AND SWALLOWED WASH CLOTH.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/20/2008	Age: 73 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Heating or cooling comfort packs
INGESTION HOT HANDS, HANDWARMERS,2 TBL. POISON CONTROL CALLED. DX- BUTTUCK/LEG PUNCTURE, DEHYDRATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/16/2008	Age: 53 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Other glass bottles or jars
SWALLOWED GLASS WHILE DRINKING JUICE FROM GLASS BOTTLE. DX-ACUTE SWALLOWED FOREIGN BODY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/09/2008	Age: 62 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Jewelry, Other containers
SWALLOWED TWO EAR RINGS ALONG WHEN TAKING NIGHT PILLS THAT WERE STROED IN PILL BOX. INGESTION OF FOREIGN BODY (EAR RINGS)
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/26/2008	Age: 67 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Toothpicks or hor d'oeuvres picks, Foods
PT EATING CHEESEBURGER AND ESOPHAGUS (SWALLOWED) PART OF TOOTHPICK. ESOPHAGEAL FOREIGN BODY
Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital

Date: 04/19/2008	Age: 63 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Aspirated Object
Product: Foods, Beds or bedframes
NURSING HOME PT ASPIRATED ON FOOD IN BED RESIRATORY ARREST
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 04/08/2008	Age: 66 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Aspirated Object
Product: Foods, Stools
HAD A CHOKING EPISODE AT THE NURING HOME WHILE SITTING ON THE BATHROOM STOOL-STILL WAS CHEWING ON BREAD. ACUTE ASPHYXIA*
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/05/2008	Age: 80 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Aspirated Object
Product: Swimming, Built-in swimming pools
PT SWIMMING IN A POOL AND SWALLOWED A "TOKEN" WHILE UNDER THE WATER STA RTED TO CHOKE LODGED IN THROAT FB ASPIRATION
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 03/07/2008	Age: 72 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Toothpicks or hor d'oeuvres picks
SWALLOWED A TOOTHPICK. DX- FOREIGN BODY INGESTION #
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 03/03/2008	Age: 80 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Batteries
PT ACCIDENTALLY SWALLOWED A HEARING AID BATTERY AT HOME LAST NIGHT DX// SWALLOWED BATTERY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/28/2008	Age: 62 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Foods, Electric blenders
PT WAS MAKING A SMOOTHIE AND A PIECE OF RUBBER GOT INTO THE BLENDER AND PT SWALLOWED IT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/26/2008	Age: 90 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Aspirated Object
Product: Wallpaper, Plastic bags
POSSIBLE FB THROAT-90 YR OLD PT BROUGHT TO ER FROM NH AFTER EATING WALL PAPER AND ATTEMPTING TO EAT A PLASTIC BAG.
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 02/18/2008	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: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Foods, Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks
WHILE EATING ICE CREAM, PT SWALLOWED A SCREW THAT WAS IN ICECREAM, FB I N ABDOMEN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/17/2008	Age: 57 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Self-contained openers
SWALLOWED A CAN TOP FB INGESTION *
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/10/2008	Age: 60 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: First aid equipment
PT WAS EATING WITH FINGERS WITH * ON FINGERS AND ACCIDENTALLY SWALLOW ED 2 *
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/26/2008	Age: 58 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Aspirated Object
Product: Toothpicks or hor d'oeuvres picks
SWALLOWED A TOOTHPICK AND X RAY SHOWS IN THROAT,NEEDS ENDOSCOPY
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

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