USB Dogtag

[bowser]

Forgive my ignorance ...do ambulances and/or police cars actually have computers that can read this sort of thing? A
lso, it mentions that SAS soldiers carry them - aren't they meant to be Special Forces who work in small grousp behind enemy lines? - why would they carry a USB medical card

Isn't it just easier to carry a piece of paper in your wallet with emergency details on it?
Would my gout, ingrown toenail 13 years ago and mild asthma have to be wriitten somewhere

I think it looks like a good idea but I am not so sure as to the practical reality.
Speaking professionally there is NO police station in the MET where that could be read, as the system specifically prohibits access to USB sticks, and we dont have many stand alone those we do have are locked away and not for general use, I think the NHS networks are the same.

And its not waterproof.

 

[sanqhar]

Schuberth Solution

My C2 Concept has a little flap by the r/h chin bar hinge behind which you can put written medical info.

To make it a bit more visible I have put a green cross made out of sticky tape on it.

Back to the dogtag, if it isn't waterproof what is the point!

tom

 

[Wapping]

Did I not hear that the medic's, perhaps rightly, take a fair degree of caution over 'home made' stickers etc in helmets etc. just in case the person involved in the accident (who did not have the medical condition) had borrowed the item from a friend, who did?

It's rather like the DO NOT REMOVE stickers on helmets. I went to an excellent, free, one day course run by Tower Hamlets / local ambulance / police wallas on 'amateur' first aid, hoping to never use it. The comment made, by us punters was, "We will only make it worse, if the poor sod has damaged his neck/ back".

The answer was, "If your mate / the person is not breathing, how can you make it any worse? Do you want to wait for 10 minutes, whilst an ambulance might come, when the brain starts to die in four minutes?"

Seemed to make sense.....

 

[skyenet]

any covert special forces members care to comment

Well I could tell you - but then I would have to kill you all

 

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