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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,359
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/04/2007 | Age: 84 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Concussion |
| Product: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches |
| PT FELL OVER COUCH. DX: CONCUSSION W/O LOC, HEAD CONT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/27/2007 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches |
| PATIENT HAD FALLEN FEW DAYS AGO WHEN HAD A SEIZURE NO TREATMENT, FAMILY LEFT TOWN RETURNED FOUND PT ON COUCH UNCONSCIOUS. DX-HEAD INJURY. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 11/26/2007 | Age: 83 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches, Floors or flooring materials |
| 83Y/O,M,STANDING ON SOFA, FELL ONTO FLOOR, CONTUSION HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/08/2007 | Age: 74 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches |
| CHI.PT WAS GETTING UP FROM A SOFA AND FELL FOREWARD. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/05/2007 | Age: 60 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches, Floors or flooring materials |
| FELL OFF COUCH INTO FLOOR @ HOME DX CHI |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/13/2007 | Age: 84 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches |
| CHI. PT WAS SLEEPING ON COUCH AND FELL OFF HITTING HEAD. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/29/2007 | Age: 79 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches, Record players |
| FELL ON DAVENPORT ON RECORD PALYER HEAD CONT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/25/2007 | Age: 82 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches |
| 82YOM AT HOME SLIPPED AND FELL,STRIKING HEAD OFF WOODEN PART OFTHE COUC H; CLOSED HEAD INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/24/2007 | Age: 87 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches, Tables |
| PT GETTING UP FROM THE COUCH AT HOME AND FELL STRIKING HEAD AGAINST A TABLE SUSTAINED A CLOSED HEAD INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/24/2007 | Age: 84 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches |
| FELL OFF COUCH WHILE REACHING FOR SOMETHING. DX. HEADACHE, MINOR HEAD INJURY, HYPERTENSION. JS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/18/2007 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches |
| PT HAD SEIZURE, FELL, BUMPED HEAD ON SOFA, DX SEIZURE, CONTUSION TO HEA D |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/10/2007 | Age: 63 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches, Alcohol |
| PT INTOXICATED AT HOME AND FELL OFF THE COUCH STRIKING BACK OF HEAD SUS TAINED A CLOSED HEAD INJURY BAC 302 POSITIVE LOC |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 07/08/2007 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches, Alcohol |
| ~PT GOT UP FROM COUCH TO GO TO BATHROOM, GOT DIZZY & PASSED OUT X5 SEC ONDS. HIT HEAD ON GROUND. +ETOH. D:SYNCOPE, DEHYDRATION. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 06/14/2007 | Age: 84 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches |
| PT SUST HEAD INJURY FELL FROM COUCH |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/09/2007 | Age: 61 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches |
| PT FELL OFF THE COUCH STRUCK HEAD SUSTAINED A CLOSED HEAD INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/17/2007 | 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: Head | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches |
| PT STS GOT UP FROM SOFA,FELL HIT HEAD,NLOC,C/O HEADACHE,HANDS TINGLING R KNEE PAIN,UPPER BACK PAIN,ABDOMINAL PAIN, DX GROUND LEVEL FALL |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 05/06/2007 | Age: 86 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches, Floors or flooring materials |
| CHI.PT ROLLED OFF A COUCH ONTO THE FLOOR. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/30/2007 | Age: 85 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Farm/ranch | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches, Floors or flooring materials |
| 85YOF SLEEPING ON THE COUCH THIS MORNING,ROLLED OFF,STRUCK HEAD ON FLOOR; 1.5-CM SCALP LACERATION,STAPLED CLOSURE,HEAD INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/08/2007 | Age: 77 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches |
| DIZZINESS; NEAR SYNCOPAL EPISODE: R/O SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE: SLEEPING GOT UP, BECAME DIZZY, FELL ON COUCH, HIT HEAD ON BOTTOM PART OF COUCH |
| Disposition: Held for observation |
| Date: 03/15/2007 | Age: 91 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches, Ceilings and walls |
| ~7 CM SCALP LACERATION: FEET GOT TANGLED WHEN GETTING UP OFF COUCH, FELL INTO WALL, DOESN'T REMEMBER FALLING, DATE, YEAR, ETC. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/13/2007 | Age: 86 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches |
| PATIENT STATES SHE GOT UP FROM HER COUCH AND STUMBLED AND FELL DX CO NTUSION TO HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/11/2007 | Age: 91 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches |
| PT FELL OFF COUCH AND HIT HEAD DX: SCALP LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/03/2007 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches, Television tables or stands |
| ~SYNCOPE: HEAD INJ: 4 CM SCALP LACERATION: GOT UP FROM COUCH, PASSED OUT, FELL, HIT BACK OF HEAD ON TV STAND |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 02/23/2007 | Age: 72 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches |
| PT FELL OFF COUCH HITTING HEAD DX: HEAD TRAUMA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/23/2007 | Age: 79 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches, Tables |
| 79 YOF, WAS GETTING UP FROM THE COUCH AND FELL HITTING HEAD ON COFFEE TABLE, SIMPLY JUST LOST BALANCE. DX: LACERATION AND CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/03/2007 | Age: 90 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches |
| FELL OFF COUCH. DX- SCALP LACERATION, MINOR HEAD INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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