Accidents - Bathtubs or showers - 50+ years old - Year 2008 - All Of Body

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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,774
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Date: 12/14/2008	Age: 78 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: Bathtubs or showers
PT WAS IN SHOWER BENT OVER AND LOST BALANCE-DISEQUILIBRIUM
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 12/13/2008	Age: 92 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Bathtubs or showers
FELL IN SHOWER DX: FALL, SYNCOPE
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 12/06/2008	Age: 72 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Bathtubs or showers
STATES SHE PASSED OUT OF THE SHOWER THIS AM, HAS A HISTORY OF IRREGULAR HEART RATE. DX: COMPLETE HEART BLOCK*
Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital

Date: 12/04/2008	Age: 75 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: Bathtubs or showers
DX NEAR-SYNCOPE/GENERALIZED WEAKNESS: W SHOWER'G THIS A.M. W SHE BECAME WEAK & LT-HEADED. SAT DOWN & THEN REPORTS POSS SYNCOPAL EPISODE
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 12/04/2008	Age: 88 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Bathtubs or showers
FELL IN BATHTUB LAST P.M.,NOW WITH VERTIGO VERTIGO *
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 12/01/2008	Age: 80 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Bathtubs or showers
PT STATES HE THINKS HE PASSED OUT WHILE GETTING OUT OF SHOWER AND HIT B ACK AND R KNEE. DX. SYNCOPE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/28/2008	Age: 53 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: Dermat Or Conj
Product: Bathtubs or showers, Soaps
ALLERGIC REACTION, DERMATITIS: GOT OUT OF SHOWER AND STARTED TO ITCH, STATES CHANGED SOAP, RED HIVES ALL OVER BODY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/28/2008	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: Bathtubs or showers
PT TAKING A SHOWER AND PASSED OUT ADMITTED FOR SYNCOPE
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 11/18/2008	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: Bathtubs or showers, Alcohol
PT STATES FELT DIZZY & LOST BALANCE AND FELL IN BATHTUB , PT WAS USING ALCOHOL & MARIJUANA ETHANOL LEVEL 151 DX: DRUG ABUSE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/11/2008	Age: 79 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Bathtubs or showers, Tablet or capsule drugs
WAS GETTING OUT OF SHOWER AND SCRATCHED LEG WILL NOT STOP BLEEDING PTI S ON *** DX- BLEED
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/10/2008	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: Bathtubs or showers
PT FELL IN THE BATHTUB AND SPEBT TYHE WEEK END THERE UNABLE TO GET UP D IFFUSE MUSCLE ACHES RHABDOMYOLYSIS
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 11/10/2008	Age: 84 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: Bathtubs or showers
PT TAKING A SHOWER AND PASSED OUT ADMITTED FOR SYNCOPE
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 11/08/2008	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: Bathtubs or showers, Floors or flooring materials
PT COMING OUT OF THE SHOWER AND BECAME WEAK AND FELL TO THE FLOOR UNABL E TO GET UP ADMITTED FOR WEAKNESS
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 11/07/2008	Age: 80 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Bathtubs or showers
PT WAS TAKING A SHOWER AND PASSED OUT TREATED FOR SYNCOPE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/02/2008	Age: 72 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: Bathtubs or showers, Hot water
SYNCOPAL EPISODE SHORTLY AFTER COMING OUT OF A HOT BATHTUB-SYNCOPAL EPI SODE
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 10/20/2008	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: Bathtubs or showers
52 YO IN BATHTUB BECAME DIZZY SYNCOPAL EPISODE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/17/2008	Age: 95 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: Bathtubs or showers
PT TAKING A SHOWER AND FELT LIGHTHEADED AND PASSED OUT IN THE SHOWER A DMITTED FOR SYNCOPE
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 10/16/2008	Age: 83 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: Bathtubs or showers, Floors or flooring materials
83 YO SLIPPED IN BATHTUB THEN FELL ON FLOOR SYNCOPE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/11/2008	Age: 86 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: Bathtubs or showers
SLIP & FELL IN THE BATHROOM. SYNCOPE.
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 10/03/2008	Age: 71 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Bathtubs or showers, Hot water
PT WAS IN THE SHOWER WITH THE HOT WATER RUNNING AND PASSED OUT DX- VASO VAGAL SYNCOPE DUE TO HOT WATER
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 10/03/2008	Age: 57 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: Bathtubs or showers, Drain cleaners
PT DX ALLERGIC REACTION - S/P DUE TO BEING EXPOSED TO CHEMICAL SPRAYED INTO TUB,C/O NOSE RASH AND LIP SWELLING.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/27/2008	Age: 70 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: Bathtubs or showers
MULTIPLE CONTUSION.PT FELL IN BATHTUB.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/23/2008	Age: 60 years	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Bathtubs or showers, Liquid drugs
PT FOUND DOWN IN SHOWER W/ ALTERED MENTAL STATUS. BLOOD GLUCOSE 42. PTI S DIABETIC & TAKES ***. D:SYNCOPE, HYPOGLYCEMIA. ADMIT.
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 09/15/2008	Age: 53 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: Bathtubs or showers
REPORTS BEING VERY HOT IN THE HOUSE&WHILE TAKING A SHOWER DEVELOPED DIZ ZINESS&LIGHTHEADNESS THEN SYNCOPED&COLLAPSED>> SYNCOPE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/02/2008	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: Bathtubs or showers
PT STATES FELL IN THE SHOWER AT HOME HAS NO COMPLAINTS DX GENERALIZED W EAKNESS
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 08/26/2008	Age: 88 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Bathtubs or showers
FELL IN BATHTUB, NOW CONFUSED DX; SYNCOPE, ABDNORMAL ***
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 08/25/2008	Age: 75 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: Bathtubs or showers
75 YO FELL IN BATHTUB SYNCOPE
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 08/23/2008	Age: 67 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: Bathtubs or showers, Alcohol
ETOH=0.137, SLIPPED&FELL WHILE GETTIGN OUT OF THE SHOWER, NOW WITH HEAD ACHE&SHOULDER PAIN >> ETOH INTOXICATION/RUEL PE
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 07/23/2008	Age: 75 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: Bathtubs or showers, Tablet or capsule drugs
SUPERFICIAL BLEEDING FROM SCROTUM:TOOK SHOWER,AFTER DRYING OFFNOTICEDSM PINPOINT LESION BLEEDINGTRIED TO GET IT STOPPED,ON *,*
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/07/2008	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: Bathtubs or showers
PT FELL AND HIT HEAD ON SIDE OF TUB. DX; DIZZY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/01/2008	Age: 87 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: Bathtubs or showers
PT FELL GETTING OUT OF SHOWER, LOST CONSCIOUSNESS FOR SOME TIME, TO ER FOR EVALUATION
Disposition: Held for observation

Date: 07/01/2008	Age: 67 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: Bathtubs or showers
67 YO MALE WAS SOB IN SHOWER SOB
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 06/11/2008	Age: 55 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: Bathtubs or showers
PT FELL IN BATHTUB, AFTER TREMORS AND WEAKNESS
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 06/04/2008	Age: 79 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: Bathtubs or showers
PT SLIPPED AND FELL IN BATHTUB AND HAS BEEN UNABLE TO GET UP OUT OF TUB SINCE TUESDAY. DX; DEHYDRATION
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 05/28/2008	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: Bathtubs or showers
GOT DIZZY TAKING SHOWER/SYNCOPE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/16/2008	Age: 73 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Bathtubs or showers
FELL IN TUB/SEIZURE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/14/2008	Age: 94 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Bathtubs or showers
PT WAS GETTONG OUT OF SHOWER AND FELL WHILE WALKING TO BEDROOM. NO NOTE D TRAUMA. D: SYNCOPE, HYPONATREMIA, UTI, HYPOTENSION. ADMITTED
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 05/10/2008	Age: 56 years	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Bathtubs or showers
PT BENDING OVER TO TURN ON BATHTUB AND FELT LIGHTHEADED, DIZZY. FELL. S IMPACT & PAIN TO SHOULDER, FACE. D:PRESYNCOPE EPISODE, CHEST PAIN. ADM
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 05/07/2008	Age: 66 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: Bathtubs or showers
MULTIPLE CONTUSIONS.PT FELL IN THE SHOWER.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/02/2008	Age: 81 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: Bathtubs or showers
SUDDEN ONSET OF DIZZINESS/LIGHTHEADNESS WHILE TAKING SHOWER, SYNCOPED&F ELL>> SYNCOPED/DEHYDRATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/22/2008	Age: 92 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: Bathtubs or showers
FELL AND FOUND WITH NECK OVER LEDGE OF SHOWER,HAD SYNCOPAL EPISODE
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 04/07/2008	Age: 76 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Bathtubs or showers
PT FELL IN SHOWER AND SUFFERED MS CHANGE
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 03/22/2008	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: Bathtubs or showers
MULTIPLE ABRASIONS.PT FELL IN BATHTUB.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/15/2008	Age: 82 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Bathtubs or showers
PT HAD A SYNCOPAL EPISODE AND FELL IN THE SHOWER ONTON HIS LEFT SIDE. C /O WEAKNESS ON LEFT SIDE. D: TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK. ADMITTED
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 03/03/2008	Age: 88 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Bathtubs or showers
PT FELL IN THE SHOWER TWO DAYS AGO AND STRUCK HEAD DIZZINESS AND VERTIG O
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 02/11/2008	Age: 71 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: Bathtubs or showers
PT FELL GETTING OUT OF BATH TUB DX: SYNCOPE
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 01/27/2008	Age: 51 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: Bathtubs or showers
PT FELL WHILE IN SHOWER. DX: DEHYDRATION
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 01/17/2008	Age: 84 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Bathtubs or showers
FOUND UNCONSCIOUS IN BATHTUB, UNKN HOW LONG THERE/RHABDOMYALOSIS HYPOXIA, RENAL INSUF, AFIB W/RVR
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 01/12/2008	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: Bathtubs or showers
PT IN THE SHOWER AND DEVELOPED DIZZINESS AND VERTIGO
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/08/2008	Age: 80 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: Bathtubs or showers, Saunas
80 YO IN SAUNA WENT INTO SHOWER BECAME WEAK SYNCOPE
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 01/06/2008	Age: 71 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: Bathtubs or showers
SYNCOPED&FELL WHILE TAKING A SHOWER, BIB EMS FOR EVA >> SYNCOPE/MED EVA S/P FALL
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

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