How does carrying ID save your life?
- Medical Keyring
- Aug 7, 2017
- 2 min read
Paramedics know everything about illnesses. When they arrive at the scene of an emergency they immediately know exactly what is wrong with a patient and how to treat them. When they find a patient they are fully aware of their emergency contacts, medication and their allergies.
Let's get some facts laid out:
1. Paramedics do not know everything.
2. Paramedics are not psychic.
3. Paramedics can not know how to treat somebody without assessing the situation first.
4. Paramedics do not know about a patients allergies, medication or emergency contacts.
So, what can we do to help inform Paramedics? We can't teach them anything surely, they've been to University and have been trained by the best medical specialists in the Country. There is something we can do to make their job at helping us and potentially saving our lives easier. We can carry medical identification.
Many people already carry medical ID with them, but is it of any real use? Many people who have been involved in a medical emergency say that they have been wearing medic alert ID but nobody has looked for it. I personally have collapsed whilst wearing ID for Diabetes and nobody, not even the Paramedics, have searched under my collar of cuff for my Diabetic ID.
There are a few things that we all carry most of the time, and they are the ideal items that should be used to display your medical conditions. These are:
1. House/car keys.
2. Mobile phone.
3. Purse/wallet.
4. Handbag/Laptop Bag/Rucksack/Backpack
So, what if we could display some sort of medical ID on either/all of the above? Well, with QR Medical Products we can! What makes our QR Medical ID different to other ID? QR Technology.
What is QR Technology?
QR, or Quick Response, is a way of displaying information on electronic devices, including scanners, computer and mobile phones, by way of scanning a QR Code. A QR Code is a unique pattern of squares that is registered to a set of data - in our case, your emergency life-saving medical information.
QR Medical ID Products is different to other emergency medical ID because we offer you the ability to inform Paramedics, First Responders, Hospital Staff, First Aiders or whoever arrives on the scene to help you first of your urgent and critical medical information. This in turn will enable Mr or Mrs Paramedic to treat you more quickly and effectively, because they will know what medical conditions you have, what medication you take (or may have forgotten to take), your blood group, your NHS number, any allergies you may have and somebody on the scene can contact your emergency contacts to inform them what has happened.
The products currently available are: 1. QR Medical Keyring
The QR Medical KeyFob will be available soon, comprising 3 plastic "Clubcard" style fobs.
Ordering online is secure and payments are accepted via PayPal, Credit/Debit card or Bank Transfer. If you have any questions at all please visit www.medicalkeyring.co.uk, www.facebook.com/medicalkeyring or send an email to info@medicalkeyring.co.uk.
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