If you work alone with a medical condition, the person who finds you will not know you. What a working alone medical ID has to say, what Safe Work Australia and Farmsafe already expect, and how to give Triple Zero your location from a back paddock.
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An emergency is a conversation, and for a deaf person responders start it wrong. How to reach Triple Zero through the National Relay Service, why your cochlear implant matters in an MRI suite, and what a deaf medical ID should say.
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For someone with haemophilia or von Willebrand disease, a knock to the head or a twisted knee can be an emergency with no visible bleeding. Here is what the medical ID has to say so a bystander, a paramedic and an unfamiliar hospital all get it right.
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One in three stroke survivors has a communication difficulty, and most take a blood thinner. When the next emergency comes, the record has to say what you cannot: your baseline, your medicines, and that you understand every word.
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Parkinson's medication only works while the tablets keep arriving on schedule. An Australian study found administration errors in 85% of hospital admissions, mostly missed levodopa. Here is what your medical ID has to say so that does not happen to you.
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The people most likely to break the fistula-arm rules are the ones trying to help you when you cannot speak. A dialysis medical ID cannot go on the arm it protects, so its first line has to name the arm.
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Exercise is the one part of the day when the usual safety nets are off: no wallet, often no phone, nobody with you. A person found collapsed on a trail is an unknown person with an unknown history.
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Most conditions on a medical ID change how a responder treats you. This one changes whether the right treatment happens at all — because an adrenal crisis looks like a dozen other things, and the specific treatment is one nobody gives on a guess.
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Emergencies are built for people who can answer questions. For many Autistic people, an emergency is precisely the situation in which answering is hardest — and a responder with no information is guessing at every step.
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Most seizure first aid is the same for everyone. What changes from person to person is everything around it — your normal seizure length, your recovery, your emergency medication — and none of it can be observed. It has to be recorded.
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