Conditions For Use
Typical conditions warranting such a tag are:
- Asplenia
- Autism
- Alzheimer's Disease
- Rare blood type
- Hemophelia
- Von Willebrand Disease
- Advance Medical Directives (Do Not Revive order, POLST, Durable Power of Attorney, Living Will)
- Drug allergies
- Epilepsy
- Any seizure disorder
- Diabetes (Type 1 and 2)
- Anaphylactic Allergies (food, drug, insect)
- Asthma
- Situs Inversus
- Adrenal insufficiency
- Pacemaker or other implantable medical devices
- Anticoagulants, such as warfarin
- Use of a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) drug, which can interact fatally with epinephrine
- Disaster evacuation
- Acute porphyria
- Hypoglycemia
- Hereditary angioedema
In addition to mention of a condition, the tag may have a telephone number that medical personnel can call for more information, such as specific medications and phone number of physician or care-giver. Basically, the medical information tag, engraved with the wearer's personal medical problem or history, speak for the wearer when the wearer can't.
Such a tag may also be useful as proof of such a condition to law enforcement personnel.
Read more about this topic: Medical Identification Tag
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