I am considering getting a RideSafe bracelet for all these times when I am hacking out alone but I am unsure of what to put on the 5 lines provided (apart from my name of course).
I have no medical conditions and no local Emergency Contact (ah, moving to a new country…) since my former ICE recently moved abroad and my family also lives abroad.
So, help me guys, so I don’t have a cute bracelet with just my name and something sad along the lines of “please bring my pony back to the barn” on it… 
What information - if any - would be helpful on there?
as an EMT I can tell you that we need:
Name
DOB
SSN
DRUG ALLERGIES!
and any crazy pre existing conditions (Like diabetes…)
Everything else can be acquired at the hospital from the SSN.
DO NOT PUT YOUR SSN ON YOUR BRACELET.
- Name, year of birth
- emergency contact (list remote contacts–if they need someone to make decisions, it doesn’t matter where they are, typically)
- Drug allergies (put NKDA if no known drug allergies)
- medical hx (put no med hx)
You can put blood type, but they won’t trust it 
You can put hospital preference if you want. You can list your PCP and phone number.
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Personally, I wish we could just micro chip ourselves.
Do you have your horses at home, or do you board? If you board, put your barn owner/managers number as a contact. As an ER nurse, info we like
Name
Allergies
Medical hx
NKDA (stands for no known drug allergies) And no PMH would be no past medical history.
A number of SOMEONE we could call is helpful. Even if it is a distant person who would know how to contact overseas relations. Or again, if you board give barn owner a list of names and numbers of overseas relations.
I too am a barn owner, and would be happy to hold on to that info and be responsible for making a phone call in the unlikely event it would need to be done.
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I have thought about PIT tagging myself, LOL, (Passive Integrated Transponder tags, same as a microchip, we use them for snakes, fish, well, just about any type of wildlife). Figured if I can tag a 6" squirming baby yellowbelly racer, I can probably hit my arm. They only spit out alphanumeric codes though, so would have to figure out how to get it to say something more useful than “BE3845N962EX.” Hmmmm…
ETA – OH, you could put out static receiver arrays at the finish flags and various points on course so you’d always know where your riders are!! I’d love that on R&T at 3DE’s!
So, you health provider peeps would not care about health insurance info? Seems like every time I arrive at the ER that is the FIRST thing they want… (Obviously an EMT, no, but if you are wearing this and carrying no other ID, and end up in ER…)
you can always file insurance later. So no, you don’t need that in an emergency.
Since I can’t possibly fit all of my medical info on the tag all that’s there is my name, ICE number and the info they put on to find the medical stuff. My one drug allergy is an antibiotic, so I figure that’s less important than the ICE number to the people that might find me.
Just a heads up: a lot of people are aggravated with RideSafe, slow delivery, lack of customer service response. Look on this forum; there are several threads about it with many recommendations for Road ID over RideSafe.
Thank you all for the helpful info! And I’ll definitely look into Road ID too!
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Thank you all for the helpful info! And I’ll definitely look into Road ID too![/QUOTE]
I have Road ID. I included
Name
Year of birth
“No meds” (meaning I do not take prescription products regularly, such as for a chronic condition)
My 1 drug allergy
An emergency contact (who is not (very) local)
On Road ID interactive, that’s all you have room for - the rest is online, including insurance info.
Yeah, do NOT include your SSN or your insurance plan #.
Insurance info, SSN and the like is not necessary. Anyone who is injured badly enough to not be able to provide their own information will typically be transported to a trauma center and given a generic identifier such as a number, color, etc until the information is able to be obtained, but lack of such demographic information will not delay treatment.
You should include your name, DOB, drug allergies, PERTINENT past medical history (they don’t need to know that you had your tonsils removed at age 5; they do need to know if you have a bleeding disorder, diabetes, etc.), and emergency contact.
If you are using an ID that has a website associated with it, just know that neither ground EMS nor flight crews are likely to be able to access that information in the field, so anything that is important for them to know needs to be directly on the wristband itself.
Blood type is unnecessary … Type O negative uncrossmatched blood is used in emergencies, and the hospital will do their own typing and crossmatching if additional blood is needed.
My Road ID says:
My name
Husband’s Phone Number (Literally, just like that: “Husband Phone : ________”)
Date of Birth
Blue Cross number
Penicillin Allergy
Organ Donor
Dumb question, but why the DOB?
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Insurance info, SSN and the like is not necessary. Anyone who is injured badly enough to not be able to provide their own information will typically be transported to a trauma center and given a generic identifier such as a number, color, etc until the information is able to be obtained, but lack of such demographic information will not delay treatment.
You should include your name, DOB, drug allergies, PERTINENT past medical history (they don’t need to know that you had your tonsils removed at age 5; they do need to know if you have a bleeding disorder, diabetes, etc.), and emergency contact.[/QUOTE]
Stupid question, but how do you decide what counts as pertinent medical history? I can never figure that one out. Likewise which meds might be important to put on the list other than something super obvious like blood thinners.
Also, is there a medical Id EMS folks prefer? My mom actually is on blood thinners so should probably have something.
