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and personal physician, and to give information that will improve emergency care, l’eople with special health problems should also wear a durable metal or plastic alerting signal device on their wrist, ankle or neck, indicating their need for special medical care.
The emergency medical identification card should note special problems that need immediate attention in an emergency or that could cause an emergency. For example, diabetics must be identified so that a person in diabetic coma will get proper treatment promptly and needed doses of insulin will not be overlooked during treatment for injury. The need for certain medicines must be known. Heart patients taking drugs to prevent blood clots may bleed profusely if injured unless they receive special care. Other people are sensitive to certain drugs and must never take them.
Epileptics could be saved much trouble and unnecessary hospitalization if they carried a card indicating that they may have seizures. Neck breathers (those who breathe through a tube surgically inserted below their "Adam's apple") must be recognizable to protect them from smothering.
An emergency medical identification kit may be obtained by addressing Box C, Emergency Medical Identification, American Medical Association, 535 N. Dearborn St., Chicago, 111. 60610. Single kits are free on request. The ki( contains two identification cards, a pamphlet describing the universal symbol, and a list of manufacturers of signal devices bearing this symbol.
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