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Keeping Your Family Safe
Unintentional injuries are the leading cause of death for Americans ages 1 to 35, and among the leading causes of injury or death nationally among all age groups. In most cases, these injuries are preventable. Our ultimate goal is to prevent injuries before they happen.
Check out our growing library of injury prevention brochures and flyers on preventing falls, safety tips for your kids, preventing distracted driving, pool safety, car seat safety checklist, and so much more. Thank you to the marvelous Emergency and Trauma Services team for developing these safety tips for you.
Disaster can strike quickly and without warning. It can force you to evacuate your neighborhood, workplace or school or can confine you to your home. What would you do if basic services -- water, gas, electricity or telephones--were cut off? All the information you need to know to be prepared.
Sometimes just having your ID is not enough in case of an emergency.
Keep ICE in your phone for emergencies. You read that right. ICE, as in In Case of Emergency contact information.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2003, more than 900,000 Emergency Room patients could not provide contact information, because they were incapacitated. ICE stands for In Case of Emergency and adding an ICE contact to your cell phone can help responders contact next of kin in an emergency situation .
Even better – also add a detailed list of your medication in the notes section of this contact! Here’s how to do it:
- Enter a new contact in your cell phone titled ICE
- Type in your contact’s name, followed by their phone number
For security purposes, many mobile phone owners password lock their cell phones. This hinders the ability of first responders to access the ICE phone list entry. In response to this problem, many phone manufacturers have provided a mechanism to specify some text to be displayed even while the mobile is in the locked state. Contact your phone manufacturer for more information.
