Catspaw's correct, and so is Wayne. The information is good, and we do look for it. When we train paramedics, an important part of the cirriculum includes the search for alert tags, medication lists, and home health paperwork.

Keep your emergency alerts and paperwork up to date and leave them where emergency personnel can find them. Keep a copy of your emergency records in an envelope on the refrigerator door. If we find you unconscious and no one can help with information, we'll look in your refrigerator for clues (insulin or other meds which must be kept cold), if we're met with an envelope marked EMERGENCY MEDICAL INFORMATION, you can bet we'll read what's within.

This has been a public service of a Mudcat EMS provider.

Dave Swan