Emergency Personel Advice Needed

[Girls Scout Leader]

This is mainly for Paramedics, ER Docs, Nurses, Etc, and anyone else with some insight..

I am traveling to WDW in June with 6 teenagers and 4 adults.

I am required to carry emergency medical forms on each of them. Everyone already has a Doc's physical, etc. These are long and with all ten, could be a pain to carry. Especially since I do not anticipate staying as one group the whole time.

So I am trying to design an emercency card. This would be no larger than a playing card. Each girl would carry her own and each adult would carry a copy of everyone's.

These are to be laminated and attached to aa ring or caribeener (sp?). Info would be used by emergency personel. I thought of including:
Full Legal Name, Home Address, Parent's Names, Alergies, Current Medicines, and at least 2 Emergency Contacts at Home.

What else would be necessary? What would YOU need to know to treat her initially?

 

[iNTeNSeBLue98]

Not the person you're looking for, but is this required by GSUSA for the trip?

IMO it seems like you have it all covered. I sepculate on detailing full names and home addresses to be carried throughout WDW, but I undersand your needing to have everyhting in one place.

Do you have contact info for the rest of your group so you and the others can be notified in the event of an emergency?

 

[Microcell]

You also need any diseases like heart problems and Diabetes if applicable. Did you say emergency numbers if you or parent can't be reached? You really need to have their sheets with you if it is a Girl Scout trip becasue it is also an insurance thing. Maybe okay if you have in the room, but it needs to get to the hospital with the girl. It also serves as a consent for treatment as the parents have signed it.

 

[Girls Scout Leader]

The reason I wanted full names is that some of the girls go by a nickname. Won't post them here except for example, if their name was Barbara Jane and they go by BJ so much hardly anyone knows what the full name is.

GS requires the use of "Health Cards" when traveling outside the normal troop meeting place. Well, this is it! But on the "official" ones, it has things that won't pertain to this trip and would be usleless, like the parents check things like bedwetting, etc. No emergency person will care if this 16 year old that passed out, wets the bed at home!

So I was just thinking of what info they would need quickly, like alergies or other meds.

And yes, we will all be carrying cell phones.

But since I do not think I will be together with them all the time (they will be 15 & 16 yr olds....yikes!) and will be in small groups.

I will probabally have to have the formal physician records and the emergency treatment concent forms, etc with me, I was concerned about when they are NOT with me!

 

[Girls Scout Leader]

Upon reflection, the address is not needed.

Thanks.

 

[lsyorke]

I agree with any chronic illnesses and I would like to have a phone number for their primary medical doctor at home.

 

[laurie31]

The only thing I see that's missing is the birthdate and also you may want to note if their immunizations are up to date. You can put "Immunizations UTD" on the cards (if it's true, of course )

I have actually made little cards like this for my dds to carry in their backpacks in case something happens at school or even (heaven forbid) if we were in an accident and I wasn't able to give the information. I have copies in my wallet too, theirs plus mine and dh's. They have their name, address, birthdate, primary MDs name and number, medical conditions, current meds, allergies, immunization history, and our phone number and cell numbers.

The medical conditions, current meds, and allergies along with the immunizations are the "biggies" that the ER docs want to know ASAP. Next would be contact information for the next of kin. In case of life or limb-threatening illness or injury, treatment can begin without parental consent.

Oh, also note things like disabilities - I once cared for a boy hit by a car whom the docs thought had head injury until the mom arrived and told us he was profoundly deaf. No wonder he wouldn't respond to verbal commands!

Laurie

 

[Girls Scout Leader]

You are right. I will be adding birthdate (forgot about that) and medical condition (one of the girls has an inhaler for athsma)

Thanks!

 

[WDWAurora]

I didn't see insurance info on there...might want to add that. Some hospitals won't even treat without it.

 

[iNTeNSeBLue98]

Should anyone need treatment, would it be advisable to include Social Security Numbers? Or, is that offering too much personal information.

Here's my suggestion:

Side 1
Name (full name as well as nickname)
Hometown (city & state)
Birthdate
SSN (unless this is TMI)
1st contact - GSL's cell phone number
2nd contact - parent's phone number(s)-home and cell
3rd contact - other emergency contact phone number in the event a parent can not be reached
Resort Name/Room number (Is this TMI?)

Side 2
Existing Medical Conditions & Disabilities
Allergies
Current Medications
date of last exam (would then know if records are UTD)
Primary Physician name & phone number
Insurance name & ID number

 

[Girls Scout Leader]

Insurance carrier, etc was too much info for what I am trying to do. All that and more is on the big health forms and physicals, along with consent to treat forms, that i will be carrying. This is just emergency infor until I get there, msot likely from across the park.

 

[WebmasterAlex]

I would carry the official form even if it is a pain....
If something goes bad a "home brewed" form could cause issues.
I'm sure the official form has been checked over by doctors, lawyers etc.

 

[clh2]

Absolutely include your cell phone number...That way if the girls get separated from you - just plain lost - they can get in contact with you. That would be helpful even if it isn't a medical emergency. If any of the girls will be carrying their own cell phones - have them program your number into it.

Yes - the Social Security number is WAY TOO MUCH INFORMATION. And not all insurance companies use that as an ID number anymore. so it may not be helpful anyway. There is just too much stuff going on with identity theft - and the wrong person getting a SSN is bad news.

 

[DennisP]

I've chaperoned many times for a high school concert / show choir group (50+ students). The choir director made copies of the student's permission slips which included medical information and most of the information you are thinking of putting on the card. The copies were left at the first aid station in the park we visited that day.

We told the first aid station personnel the name of our group and left them the cell phone number of the choir director. We then told the students that if there was an emergency, they should go to the first aid station and all medical information would be available to the doctor, nurses, etc. The chaperones also checked in at the first aid station every few hours just to make sure that everything was OK.

I'm not sure if this would be good for a group of girl scouts but it worked out very well for the group of high school students.