Safety Wars
Medical Information During Disasters
September 13, 2022
Medical Information. To continue our theme this month on Disaster Preparation Jim talks about medical information, specifically medicine lists for loved one’s (or yourself). It’s imperative that you have this information organized not only for medical emergencies but for routine visits to the doctor. www.safetywars.com, www.jcptechnical.com. For all your health and safety needs contact us at 845-269-5772 or Jim@safetywars.com. #jayallen #jcptechnical #safety wars #jimpoesl #safetyfm https://youtu.be/FRAbYutnHbQ
[00:00:00] :  this. This this show is brought to you by safety FM. Warning. The following broadcast contains adult language, adult content, frank safety discussions and stories that might sound unbelievable. But believe me, every one of those stories is true. We didn't start the safety war, but we are going to fight to win it for our families, for our communities, for our workplaces and for our lives. The safety war starts now Couple of years ago. I didn't even see a need for what we're going to talk about today. And that is medical information. What you're probably going to need. If you're ever involved with doctors ever involved with emergency medicine, if you're the patient or if you are responsible for the patient. A couple of years back, I was 2017, I think was my father who recently passed, came down with major illnesses. He was on dialysis. He had diabetes, he had high blood pressure, but he managed them very well for many, many years. He didn't really have any complications. God bless him. He passed away three days from his 89th birthday. His funeral was on his 89th birthday, but that's not what we're here to talk about. At a certain point. He was losing track of things. He was now, it was on so many medications. It's very difficult for him to keep track of everything. It was hard for me to help him to keep track of thing of everything. So what we ended up doing was coming up with a medicine list. Your listen, I'm simulcasting this or this video that I'm shooting is going to be on youtube for you folks in uh podcast land. I'm gonna be describing you the piece of paper that I have hold that I'm holding up here. So it's real simple. You have to make things very, very, very easy for whoever is taking care of your loved one of you and everything else. So it helps when you have all the information on one piece of paper, Hopefully double sided, right. If you have to run into two. So what do you need? What I've done works out the easiest for me, for anybody in my family with a medical situation. It's a, and what do I have? You have the person's name on that. So you don't put down mom's medicine or dad's medicine or whoever, but then their name because this may have to go to the hospital, put down their name, maybe their address, contact information next to kin, that sort of thing. Then you have, I'll be posting this in the video and also on uh, if this is on linkedin or one of those other platforms, this will be in the comments section. So what do we have? We have the morning with the medications they take in the morning, the afternoon, the evening and you add more as it is. So I have a nice spreadsheet for here, then I have on the left hand side. I have, what is the medicine and why are you taking it? This is my, one of my pet peeves. It's not calling things what they are using the scriptures, not being specific. For example, water pill. Some people if they have severe medical situations, maybe on multiple water pills and I use that in air quotes. So to call something a water pill. Really not helpful. Use the proper name for that pill. Same thing with I'm taking a sugar pill. Well, guess what sugar pill could mean a million different things like I mean that you're taking metaphor. All right. Lowers blood sugar. It could mean you're taking any number of medications for that. Specifically what's the medication? What doesn't do? And then you add in there, who prescribed it? Who's the doctor? What's the pharmacy you may want to include also what the insurance information is. All of that goes on to that form. Then make it easy for the data entry. People at the hospital or medical center or whoever you're seeing. You have another list done here and you put them on the drug, the dosage. And how many times a day you're taking it. The reason being is this we're putting the medical medicine together. If you're going especially if you're putting into one of those little trade devices where it's divided. You know, monday Tuesday Wednesday, thursday friday saturday sunday and then, you know, uh morning afternoon afternoon number two and then evening, whatever. Maybe that's great when you have right. This is what I take in the morning. That's why I take the after the break it down. But the medical database is go and make it easy on the person doing data entry. I want the drugs, the dose and the frequency again. Check out our linkedin page, facebook page Youtube. This is gonna be on Youtube and all of that will be in there and I'm putting this on our uh video here. So this is what happens. You have to call a uh ambulance, ambulance comes to your house. They're gonna say, well what happened? What are the medical situation? What medical situation are you in? If you're relying on the patient or the victim to tell them that realize they're in a stressful situation they may not even recognize, especially if they have cognitive issues. They may not even recognize that they have a medical problem. They may not remember what the medical problem is. There are any number of things. You may not remember what the medical issue is. You may not remember anything. So now everything is in writing. What's the medical problem? What's the situation? What medication are they on here? You go. Boom Hand them the page. You can also upload that into the cloud may not may or may not be a good idea because of privacy issues and everything else. What's my point on this? Like with every one of our little talks on disaster preparation month assess, analyze an act. So real short video today preparing for medical emergencies with a loved one. Specifically with uh medicine list. It's critical. I wanna, it's so important. 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