There is a push going on to standardise the way we store the numbers in our mobile phones - for people who we would want contacted ‘in case of emergency’. I think what a good idea so I am passing it on.

"A campaign encouraging people to store personal details on their mobile phones to help identify victims of accidents and disasters has taken off since the bomb attacks in London.

The idea is the brainchild of East Anglian Ambulance Service paramedic Bob Brotchie. Mr Brotchie said his idea had spread as far as the USA and Australia and had gathered pace since the 7 July attacks."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/4674331.stm

‘We often have critically ill patients arriving in our emergency department with little or no identification let alone details on whom to contact. But they invariably do have a mobile phone in their jacket, or back pocket. We often look through the address list to see if we can find a Dad or Mum but these may not be the people that the patient wants contacted.’

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At 1:43 PM, July 09, 2006,  Abandoned in Pasadena said...

ICE doesn't work well because when the people you have stored in ICE call, all it says is ICE is calling or that ICE left a message and you only know that it was one of the people you have stored in ICE.

 

At 1:10 PM, July 10, 2006,  DellaB said...

Hi Margo - thanks for posting...

I saw this as that you would make the entry on the phone like this: "ICE-persons name" - and that way you could, and probably should, have more than one person listed?

Nice to meet you, I'm looking forward for some time to come and visit your blog.

 

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