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The emergency file: what to keep ready before you need it
At 2 am in a hospital corridor, nobody remembers the name of the blood thinner. One page, kept in three places, fixes that
The Pushpa team · 4 sources
At 2 am in a hospital corridor, nobody remembers the name of the blood thinner. One page, kept in three places, fixes that
The Pushpa team · 4 sourcesEmergencies with older parents rarely start with a plan. A fall at night, a neighbour who calls you abroad, a cousin driving to the hospital. The doctor on duty will ask the same questions every time: what medicines, any allergies, which doctor, which insurance. If nobody knows, care slows down, or worse
The US FDA says a medicine list like this could be a lifesaver in an emergency, especially if the person can't speak for themselves. Update it whenever a doctor changes something
112 reaches police, fire and ambulance by call, SMS or the 112 India app, which lets you save up to ten emergency contacts. On a smartphone, pressing the power button several times quickly triggers a panic call; on a basic phone, long-press 5 or 9. Show your parent once, and the person who lives with her
How Pushpa helpsPushpa keeps her medicine list, allergies, doctors and reports in one place, always current. Anyone the family has given access can pull it up on their phone in a hospital corridor, and if a reading crosses a danger line, everyone with access is alerted
General information, not medical advice. In an emergency in India, call 112
Report sent to the family
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