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abi titmus
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 Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 12:27 pm Post subject: ICE |
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East Anglian Ambulance Service have launched a national "In case of Emergency (ICE)" campaign with the support of Falklands war hero Simon Weston and in association with Vodafone's annual life savers award (see further details below).
The idea is that you store the word "ICE" in your mobile phone address book and against it enter the number of the person you would want to be contacted "In Case of Emergency". In an emergency situation ambulance and hospital staff will then be able to quickly find out who your next of kin are and be able to contact them.
It's so simple - everyone can do it. Please do. Please will you also
forward this to everybody in your address book, it won't take too many forwards before everybody will know about this. It really could save your life.
Help out in a crisis - with ICE
A Cambridge-based paramedic has launched a national campaign with Vodafone to encourage people to store emergency contact details in their mobile phones.
Bob Brotchie, a clinical team leader for the East Anglian Ambulance NHS Trust, hatched the plan last year after struggling to get contact details from shocked or injured patients.
By entering the acronym ICE - for In Case of Emergency - into the mobile's phone book, users can log the name and number of someone who should be contacted in an emergency.
The idea follows research carried out by Vodafone that shows more than 75 per cent of people carry no details of who they would like telephoned following a serious accident.
Bob, 41, who has been a paramedic for 13 years, said: "I was reflecting on some of the calls I've attended at the roadside where I had to look through the mobile phone contacts struggling for information on a shocked or injured person.
"It's difficult to know who to call. Someone might have "mum" in their phone book but that doesn't mean they'd want them contacted in an emergency.
"Almost everyone carries a mobile phone now, and with ICE we'd know immediately who to contact and what number to ring. The person may even know of their medical history."
The campaign was launched this week by Bob and Falklands war hero Simon Weston in association with Vodafone's annual Life Savers Awards.
Vodafone spokesperson Ally Stevens said: "The Life Savers Awards already demonstrate, through practical example, the important role a mobile phone can play when minutes matter in an emergency.
"By adopting the ICE advice, your mobile will now also help the rescue services quickly contact a friend or relative - which could be vital in a life or death situation."
The campaign is also asking people to think carefully about who will be their ICE partner - with helpful advice on who to choose - particularly if that person has to give consent for emergency medical treatment.
Bob hopes that all emergency services will promote ICE in their area as part of a national awareness campaign to highlight the importance of carrying next of kin details at all times. He said the idea was for the benefit of loved ones as well as the patient.
"Research suggests people recover quicker from the psychological effects of their loved one being hurt if they are involved at an earlier stage and they can reach them quickly," he added.
He said he hoped mobile phone companies would now build the ICE contact into future models, adding: "It's not a difficult thing to do. As many people say they carry mobile phones in case of an emergency, it seems natural this information should be kept there."
Edited by ultimatehandyman, Thanks for posting this Abi titmus. I have changed the topic to a sticky post as I feel it is important.[img][/img] |
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Arandora
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Please note that some "jokers" have posted a warning on the web that ICE is a spoof when in fact it is their warning that is the spoof, and a malicious one at that! :x
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jason123
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What did Simon Weston do in the Falklands that was so heroic other than get burnt?
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Jaeger_S2k
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| What did Simon Weston do in the Falklands that was so heroic other than get burnt? |
Simon would be the first to say and has said publicly he's no hero and nothing he did 'over there' made him so.
However the way the man has accepted and publicly paraded his horrendous injuries in both an effort to get on with life and to highlight the fact that even with such disfiguring injuries life goes on, the media, public and some fellow sufferers have labelled him hero, not for the efforts in the Falklands but for his heroic attitude back in civvies.
The use of the ‘Falklands’ is simply an easy way for people to remember who he is, as without that memory tag I wouldn’t have recalled who Simon Weston is and why I should know him.
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skiking
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| Well put Alan....my resposnse was going to be a lot stonger but then I'd be dragging myself down to the tones of TT.....with a bit of luck the TT service will be restored soon and they will all f*** off back there.....or even SF.com |
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Dirk Diggler
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| skiking wrote: |
| Well put Alan....my resposnse was going to be a lot stonger but then I'd be dragging myself down to the tones of TT.....with a bit of luck the TT service will be restored soon and they will all f*** off back there.....or even SF.com |
hear hear....stella my arse
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Piston Broke
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| Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 11:42 am Post subject: |
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i filed under ice and for the first few calls i asked myself, "who the hell is ice?"
Now its the norm and i have spread the word 
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