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Table 1 Count and percentage of episodes, occupied bed days and average length of stay by ICD Classification, 1997/8 – 2003/4

From: Water incident related hospital activity across England between 1997/8 and 2003/4: a retrospective descriptive study

ICD 10 Code

Episodes

%

Bed days

%

Average length of stay

V90 Accident to watercraft causing drowning and submersion

56

0.8

102

0.3

1.9

V91 Accident to watercraft causing other injury

247

3.6

1223

3.8

5.3

V92 Water-transport-related drowning/submersion without accident to watercraft

245

3.6

895

2.8

3.8

V93 Accident on board water craft without accident to watercraft not causing drowning or submersion

1100

16.2

4872

15.1

4.6

V94 Other and unspecified water transport accidents

539

7.9

2007

6.2

3.8

W15 Fall from cliff

847

12.5

5644

17.5

7.0

W16 Diving/jumping into water cause injury other than drowning or submersion

1256

18.5

8262

25.6

6.7

W65 Drowning and submersion while in bath-tub

262

3.9

795

2.5

3.2

W66 Drowning and submersion following fall into bath-tub

96

1.4

439

1.4

4.9

W67 Drowning and submersion while in swimming-pool

303

4.5

489

1.5

1.7

W68 Drowning and submersion following fall into swimming-pool

137

2.0

499

1.5

3.8

W69 Drowning and submersion while in natural water

266

3.9

1125

3.5

4.7

W70 Drowning and submersion following fall into natural water

288

4.2

1102

3.4

4.2

W73 Other specified drowning and submersion

154

2.3

653

2.0

4.6

W74 Unspecified drowning and submersion

777

11.4

2731

8.5

3.9

X38 Victim of flood

127

1.9

884

2.7

7.6

X92 Assault by drowning and submersion

66

1.0

239

0.7

5.1

Y21 Drowning and submersion undetermined intent

61

0.9

559

1.7

11.9

Total

6793

100.0

32,520

100.0

5.0