Medical bracelet

[Ouroboros]

Want to get one, any recommendations. Also if I put DNR is that binding?

[ucb]

Routinely ignored in hospital practice. Carry no legal weight, we will start CPR on people with DNR tatoo'd on their chest.
Medical bracelets are useful to identify any chronic issue which may render you incapacitous (diabetes, MS, epilepsy for instance) but one that states DNR or similar only won't be heeded

Edited by ucb on Thursday 18th August 08:49

[Ouroboros]

was thinking smartcode linked to advance will. I think that would satisfy legal binding action.

[ucb]

In a cardiac arrest situation with an unknown person either brought into a hospital or paramedics summoned, reading a smart bracelet comes some time after resuscitation.

CPR is undertaken in what would be considered the best interests of the unknown person in front of you. If that person's wishes are established AND known before the cardiac arrest then not attempting CPR is entirely reasonable. Hoping that someone will scan, download and read a document on a smart bracelet in any other highly time-sensitive situation is simply not going to happen. Bear in mind also that the identity of the person in arrest is not always known until some time after the event.

[Evanivitch]

Ouroboros said:

was thinking smartcode linked to advance will. I think that would satisfy legal binding action.

Except you've no evidence that the person has willfully put the bracelet on their body...

[Ouroboros]

Evanivitch said:

Except you've no evidence that the person has willfully put the bracelet on their body...

have another one to say i put it on?

[Badda]

As said, useful to alert for medical issues (diabetes, PNES, anti coag etc) but not dnar. Carry one in your pocket if you feel you are that stage and likely to arrest in public? It won’t be found straight away though and bystanders will always be encouraged to start, even in t
It’s presence.