Preparing for Unforeseen Medical Emergencies Preparing for the Unexpected
What would you do in the event that a member of your family, or a neighbour or workmate, suddenly experiences a medical emergency and has to be rushed to hospital? Are you prepared?
You will probably need to provide paramedics and doctors with vital health information. This may include details of medication that is being used and medical conditions like Asthma or diabetes. Your document might also include vaccination details, medication that is currently being used and details of recent illnesses and injuries.
We all tend to think that the worst will not happen to us. But they will have many important questions that need to be answered and, ideally, you need to 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 set up in the workplace. The Emergency Document would provide healthcare professionals with details of medical conditions, allergy information, medicatio that might be taken along with vaccination details and additional relevant information.
These documents are usually best put together by the person concerned. When writing the emergency document it should be assumed that you are unable to communicate with the doctors and nurses. What sort of information would they need to know under such circumstances?
Print hard copies of your families emergency documents and keep them in a safe location. Update them whenever necessary with up to date, relevant medical information. If you need to go to an emergency room then take the relevant documents with you and make certain that medical staff take a copy and don’t retain the original. Your Emergency documentation can save a lot of time that would otherwise be spent repeating the same information.
It is particularly useful to carry emergency documents when travelling. Think of the document as an addition to your travel insurance policy.It would take only a few minutes to produce a document like this but it could 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.
