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  • 4 - Responding to Medical Emergencies

  • Edited by Thomasine Kushner
  • Book:
    Surviving Health Care
    Published online:
    05 June 2012
    Print publication:
    29 March 2010, pp 46-55

  • Summary

    Health care workers are not omniscient and need accurate information about medical conditions to give the best possible treatment. During emergency, we may not recall all the information they need to make good decisions. The author suggests us to always carry a wallet card with the basic information that ambulance and hospital caregivers will need, and to put our doctor's regular and after-hours contact information on bright-colored paper in a prominent place in our home, such as on the refrigerator, so that our relatives or the ambulance personnel can find it immediately. For symptoms that have lasted a long time, the author advices us to ask a friend, our mother, or our spouse about it, or go online and read about it, or call a nurse referral line, or contact our physician, or call a physician friend/relative, or call 911 or the local equivalent.