Medical ID jewelry/card info ........

If I could share something with you, prior to ordering your jewelry or card, please think about what might be important info and what isn't. As a Paramedic speaking from experience in the emergency field, I would like to say something about the medical ID's. Jewelry will be found the quickest by emergency persons, wallet cards will be found in the hospital (usually) and the information that will be the most important to saving your life will be: 1. ALLERGIES TO MEDICATIONS - SO IMPORTANT!! 2. MEDICATIONS YOU ARE CURRENTLY TAKING 3. IMPORTANT MEDICAL HISTORY, INCLUDING RNY or WHATEVER 4. YOUR NAME & FAMILY CONTACT INFO 5. YOUR PHYSICIAN & CONTACT INFO Obviously, everything can't be put onto your jewelry so you might want to put the most important info there and keep everything else in your purse or wallet. You can refer to your wallet car on the jewelry. Always tell your family the above information about yourself incase you can't talk and they are called upon. Make sure they know your doctors info as well as your medical info. Blind NG tubes - {AZ standards} Nasogastric (NG) tubes are usually blindly placed in the field. In most places, there isn't any other way to do this procedure outside of the hospital and if you need it, it will be done but ONLY IN AN EMERGENCY. It is a tube that is measured on the outside of your body and inserted into your nose, down to your stomach. They are usually used for stomach pumping for toxins or feedings (not done in the field). In the hospital, you can tell them about your surgery or they will have asked your history and take precautions. Blind Entubations - {AZ standards} First off, you are probably unconscious if the Paramedics are entubating you. The tracheal entubations are usually done with a scope unless there is a reason that your vocal cords can not be seen and than it is blindly inserted but will be checked to make sure it isn't in your stomach prior to inflation. If an ETT has to be inserted blindly, you really need it bad and you aren't conscious anyway!