Are You Prepared for the Unexpected
What would you do if someone close to you suddenly had to be rushed to hospital? Are you adequately prepared?
You’re likely to have to provide paramedics, nurses and doctors with detailed health information. You might include details of medical conditions like diabetes and Asthma, medication and maybe injury details. You may also note medication that is being used, recent illnesses and injuries along with vaccination details.
We tend to think that, if the worst should happen, all we need to do is call the emergency services. They will always have a ton of questions that need to be answered and you should really be prepared to answer them.
One solution to this problem is to produce an Emergency Document for every member of your family and your household. A similar system might be employed in the workplace. The Emergency Document would summarise information that would be relevant to a healthcare professional such as current medical conditions, allergies, vaccinatioin information and more.
These documents are usually best put together by the person concerned. When writing them they should assume that they are unconscious and unable to communicate with the doctors and nurses. Think about the sort of information they would need to know under such circumstances?
Keep hard copies of your families emergency documents in a safe location. Always keep the documents up to date with the latest relevant medical information. Take the relevant emergency documents when you go to the emergency room but make certain that staff take copies and return the originals to you. Your Emergency documentation can save a lot of time spent repeating the same details over and over again.
Emergency documents can be particularly useful when travelling. Think of the document as an addition to your travel insurance policy. Producing these useful documents will take only a few short minutes but could potentially save your life.
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if you’re an older traveler you would do well to consider senior travel insurance and you may like to consider pre-existing medical condition travel insurance.
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