Anyone living with diabetes, asthma, heart conditions, stroke risk, memory impairment, or allergies such as insect, food or medicine, should wear a customized ID, in case they are unconscious and unable to speak for themselves.
Why Wearing a Medical ID Is So Critical
- In an emergency, many patients can’t speak for themselves
- Proper diagnosis in the first few minutes is critical to proper treatment and can reduce long-term effects
- Symptoms in an emergency situation from common maladies can easily be misdiagnosed
- Half of all medical errors happen because of mistakes made during admission or discharge
- Over 95% of Emergency Medical Professionals look for medical IDs; over 75% check immediately when first assessing a patient
- Medical IDs have directly influenced medical treatments by saving valuable time, reducing costs, ensuring proper care and saving lives!
Who Should Wear an ID?
- ADD/ADHD
- Alzheimer’s/Dementia/Memory impairment
- Anemia
- Ankylosing Spondylitis
- Asthma
- Autism
- Blood thinners/ anticoagulants (Coumadin/warfarin, even aspirin)
- Cardiac patients (angina, atrial fibrillation, pacemakers)
- Cerebral Palsy
- Clinical trial patients
- Diabetes
- Emphysema
- Epilepsy, seizures
- Food, insect and medicine allergies
- Hearing, sight and mentally impaired
- Hypertension
- Mental health patients
- Multiple medications
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Parkinson’s Disease
- Rare diseases
- Special needs children
- Stroke risk
- Surgery, transplant and cancer patients (Bariatric surgery)
- Tourette Syndrome
- And caregivers for people who live with many of these conditions.
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