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How a mediband can save your life? In an emergency, paramedics arrive to save your life. It makes the jobs of health and emergency workers easier by wearing a medical ID bracelet. Medical ID bracelets delivery important health information so they know right away how to care for the patient. Whether you suffer from a serious allergy or diabetes, having...

Have you or a loved one ever found yourself in a medical emergency? For people with conditions such as food allergies or diabetes, minor emergencies can quickly escalate. Wearing a universal medical ID bracelet can alert medical personnel about important health information. Hence, it can make it easier for doctors and nurses to provide rapid, life-saving care. From 2014 to 2015, there were 7.4 million emergency room visits in Australia. Hospital personnel need quick access to medical information. Therefore, medical ID bracelets provide the key data that they need to treat patients fast. First responders always look for a medical ID. This is an automatic part of their emergency care process. Medical IDs can give the paramedic crucial information. This knowledge can then help save lives and improve care. Continue reading →

Everyone wants to work against ill health. Becoming chronically sick or debilitated can slow you down during a time in your life when you should be thriving. Who would ever want to experience this type of suffering if you don’t have to? A growing component to overall healthcare and wellness is the aspect of preventative care. Preventative care is the process you can follow to help address an issue before it becomes a major problem. You lower your own chances of injury, illness and related problems. Continue reading →

Most of us have a basic understanding of what a medical alert bracelet is and what it is used for. Many of us may even have had them recommended to us by our doctor or another healthcare professional.  But few of us really understand the true extent of the benefit a handy little medical ID bracelet provides. Read on to learn about four ways a medical id bracelet can save your life, some of them might just astound you! Clarification of Symptoms In order to implement life-saving care, medical staff must quickly and effectively solve the puzzle of what is wrong with a patient and how it can be put right. More often than not, this puzzle is easily cracked by a trained doctor or healthcare practitioner, but in some cases, even experienced professionals may find it difficult to make an accurate diagnosis. For example, some conditions have misleading symptoms which mimic those of other conditions. Fibromyalgia – which causes patients to experience pain across wide areas of the body – can be mistaken for an underacting thyroid or osteoarthritis, which require different treatment regimens. To implement the correct care, Continue reading →

Hospitals in Oregon and Washington are standardizing overhead calls and color codes to reduce the risk of confusion or human error. The move follows a survey that found wide variation in the emergency codes among the region's hospitals. This matters because many doctors and nurses now work at more than one place. Correspondent Tom Banse reports. If you've spent any time in a hospital, you know that the staff sometimes speak in code. Overhead page: "Code blue in ER one. Code blue..." Here at Capital Medical Center in Olympia, "code blue" means a patient's breathing or heart has stopped. But at a few hospitals, code blue means "get security." So now imagine a scenario involving a doctor or nurse who's recently switched hospitals. Her patient goes into sudden cardiac arrest. She instinctively calls for code blue. But instead of the resuscitation team, the security guard comes running. This really happened at an unnamed Washington hospital. It is one reason Capital Medical Center's chief nursing officer favors standardization. Lisa Moylen: "When temporary personnel come, within the first hour they're here they're oriented to the codes because that's very important. It would certainly be a lot easier if there were some universal components." Lisa Moylen says the use of temp nurses and traveling nurses has gone way up since she started in medicine 40 years ago. Continue reading →