Officials Medical Form

[Matt-MI]

You could fill out the forms on the computer and save them as a pdf file on a flash drive and carry it in your pocket.

[wisref2]

I have had such a list for years for my crew. I never gave it to anyone, just made sure the crew was aware of things like allergies to bee stings so we could tell medical personnell if anything happened on the field.

[jchamp]

Originally Posted by Matt-MI

You could fill out the forms on the computer and save them as a pdf file on a flash drive and carry it in your pocket.

From a systems engineering perspective, I'm thinking of the simplest way to get important information to the people who need it, and this doesn't qualify.

If it's decided that this kind of information needs to be quickly available in an emergency (and for a lot of people, there's nothing all that particular first responders or even an ER crew would need to know about) I will not want to have to find someone with a laptop, get the computer to recognize the thumbdrive, try to read the monitor through the sunlight glare (try reading a computer screen at noon, ... or even a half hour before sunset), hunt down a *.pdf file and hope that I don't get told that it's time to update Adobe Reader.
If I can pull out a piece of paper, and say "here's Jim's sheet, he says he's got chronic somethingorothertosis, and is allergic to latex and acetominophen" that works much faster.

A medic alert bracelet is even faster than that, and medics are trained to look for those. I may have trouble finding the envelope in my gymbag after poor Jim goes down. Much less likely he'll lose his wrist and bracelet.

[Reffing Rev.]

Everyone takes a buisness card and on the back writes pertinent medical information, we laminate the card and everyone carries it in their back left pocket. Everyone on the crew knows that if something happens to tell the paramedics, "check the card in his back left pocket."

One of the guys who used to be on our crew was a sheriff's deputy and when we talked about this issue he once said, "where else to keep important information than on his own body."

Medic-alert would be great, but asside from a latex allergy, we're not sure what to put on them...


PS of course you should include religious preferences, just in case we have to plan your funeral after an IW or soemthing.