Medical Emergency Information That You Must Know

Your Medical Emergency Information is organized?

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Like most households, each month you receive a variety of documents having to do with your health status. From referrals, explanation of benefits to treatment instructions, the piles of medical papers add up. Multiply this by the number of family members in your household, and you can see how disorganized medical records can be a never-ending problem and a cause of great stress in the event of an emergency.

The solution is a system for managing and storing your most important medical records kept in easy access. You can design your own system of organizing all the paper associated with your medical records and treatments with various filing supplies. I found a ready-made system that had a place to hold everything we needed to record and track care, a place to hold business cards, appointment cards and a notepad for noting doctor’s comments. It was a life-saver during my health crisis and treatment.

Be sure to also communicate to loved ones where your system is kept. Having an organized system at my fingertips helped me feel in control.

Information Needed In Case Of a Medical Emergency

Today, many adult daughters and sons find themselves called upon to help care for their aging parents. Often that care must be provided in an emergency. Could you provide the vital information doctors would need to care for them? If you’re like most, you’re not sure.

What Doctor’s, Nurses and Emergency Medical Personnel Need to Know:

1. Names of doctors-Your parents’ doctors are good sources for the details of your parent’s specific health care needs. Include the name of the primary care physician and all specialists.

2. Medical history – Including any surgeries and chronic medical conditions like Alzheimer’s disease, COPD, cancer, diabetes, epilepsy, heart disease and cancer and any transplant surgery.

3. Medications – Including over-the-counter drugs, vitamin and other supplements

4. Allergies – Both to medicines and foods

5. Birth dates- Because many times insurance and medical information are stored by date of birth. Can improve communication in an emergency or a crisis.

6. Emergency contacts – Include multiple contacts with alternate numbers

7. Advanced directives – The legal documents that tell doctors and hospital personnel whether life support is wanted and if resuscitation efforts should be used.

8. Insurance policies- including the name of the issuing insurance company, the policy numbers and contact numbers to get approval for procedures.

Medical Emergency When Traveling Abroad

Becoming a world traveler in need to expanding your realm is hardly an easy endeavor, yes, it is fun, a hobby, but to see it all takes a lot of planning and dedication and traveling to some very interesting places, that are not always as safe as you might like. In many nations there are dangerous parasites living in the water and the food the locals eat may contain bacteria or viruses that your body cannot handle.

If you have a major medical emergency while traveling the world, what do you do then? Their hospitals are not as modern, safe or experienced as they are here, you’ll need to get home right away. Well, it just so happens you can buy insurance from a private company that leases its own private jet fleet and they will fly you home from where ever you are in the world to a US Hospital of your choosing. It is only a couple of hundred dollars a month, and there are now a couple of companies offering this type of traveling insurance, so perhaps you might look into that?

See also my other medical alert’s guide on first aid and medical books

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