Posted by AlexZ on February 19, 2010, at 23:39:50
In reply to Re: MAOI users: Medic alert bracelet question, posted by oskarsmom on February 9, 2004, at 21:55:38
I got one of the USB keys with the medical symbol to put around my wrist, because there's just so much information. You can get them for about $25 from Wal-Mart or Target, and they're waterproof.
Then I went to Things Remembered at the mall and got my name inscribed on the front, and on the back I had them put "MAOI" and "NO DEMEROL".
I also got a pdf of the drug prescribing information from the drug maker's webpage and put it on the key, and I put a text file on the key, named it "EMERGENCY PERSONNEL READ THIS FIRST.txt" and wrote this information in it:
I AM CURRENTLY TAKING AN MAO INHIBITOR.DEMEROL IS STRONGLY CONTRAINDICATED.
Exercise extreme caution if you must administer anaesthesia or analgesics.
I must not be given cocaine or local anesthesia containing sympathomimetic vasoconstrictors.
If surgery is necessary, benzodiazepines, mivacurium, rapacuronium, fentanyl, morphine, and
codeine may be used cautiously.For further information, please see the complete prescribing information in the directory on this USB key.
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