Got a leflet yestrerday about this. A credit card size with your details on if you are on insulin. Helps paramedics etc to put you on right track ! 😎 From NHS. http://www.diabetes.nhs.uk/ Help them Help you !!!!!!!!
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Insulin Passport !!
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trophywench
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Saves me posting the same question - who gave you the leaflet HOBIE?
Thing is though, if I'm lying on the pavement unconscious, how would they know to go in my handbag, find my purse and look for the card?
Thing is though, if I'm lying on the pavement unconscious, how would they know to go in my handbag, find my purse and look for the card?
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shiv
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I guess if you were unconscious, someone might be looking for ID. I don't think ID cards replace medical jewellery, but I like having it in my purse...in my mind it's better than not having it at all.
From a mate of mine, ex LAS. Finding ID ins't over much a priority. Working out what's wrong and carrying out an immediate assessment of the casualty is. That can be done once the patient has been handed over to the A&E staff who will do it when CABCDE has been carried out.
They will notice your type 1 diabetic tattoo on your forehead
We're taught to ignore all tattoos. The usual example cited is a person collapsed in the street and found with the words "Do Not Resuscitate" tattooed onto their chest. This is not a legal document. It is not the purple DNAR form that constitutes the appropriate legal documents.
Everyone gets a BM from ambulance service so if that's not the issue then it's a question of what is the issue. It will be checked for, however, this is when any immediate problems have been dealt with. Casualty is then reassessed.
imtrying
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found the leaflet - it's here: http://www.diabetes.nhs.uk/safe_use_of_insulin/ and then on the right hand side there's a link for the leaflet (pdf).
not sure where the credit card size thingy this...may have to make up my own! 🙂
not sure where the credit card size thingy this...may have to make up my own! 🙂
Had a look on site & this leaflet is from "national Patient safety assotiation". A couple of articles are sample ones But must be Very new (well done my GP) 🙂. Tells about patient getting wrong insulin & doseages !!!!!! Its good for Nurses etc to read 😉
There is a large amount of online training available to nurses to keep their skills in insulin administration up to speed. I use a package that does medication administration as a whole. It's all part of Continuing Professional Development. The main issue is that with such a wide variety of syringes being stored on a ward there is always room for confusion. Fortunately the chances of this is reduced by the packaging of insulin syringes being somewhat different and the insulin syringes are stored in somewhere a little different. Thankfully a large number of patients bring their own insulins and such to the ward with them so chances of error are reduced even further.
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