ICE your cell phone with "In Case of Emergency" information

ICE your cell phone with “In Case of Emergency” information

It’s a scenario most of us would rather not think about.

According to the CDC, in 2006 more than 1.5 million emergency room patients in the U.S. were so incapacitated they couldn’t provide emergency contact information to medical personnel.

But ICE could change all that.

ICE (which stands for “In Case of Emergency”) is a program started in the UK to help hospital personnel contact family members in cases where patients are unconscious and can’t provide information.

To participate in the program, just include in your cell phone’s stored numbers a listing such as this: “ICE Mom” along with mom’s number. Apparently, most hospital personnel are becoming aware of the program, so they regularly check cell phones for ICE numbers.

In fact, you can go one step further by putting an ICE sticker on your cell phone, which immediately alerts ER personnel that your phone contains an emergency contact number. You can read more about this program and place an order for ICE stickers on the website icesticker.com.

Please pass this information along to family members and friends. As more and more people put this program to use, the more well known and effective it will become.