In the Emergency Case ( ICE ) is a program that allows first responders, such as paramedics, firefighters, and police officers, and hospital personnel to contact the phone owner's family to get important medical or support information (the phone must be unlocked and working). Entries (or entries) of the phone must complement or supplement written information or indicators (such as wallets, bracelets, or necklaces). The program was composed in the mid-2000s and promoted by British paramedic Bob Brotchie in May 2005. This prompted people to enter emergency contacts in their mobile address book under the name "ICE". Alternatively, someone can register some emergency contacts as "ICE1", "ICE2", etc. The program's popularity has spread across Europe and Australia, and has begun to grow into North America.
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Overview
After a study conducted by Vodafone showing that less than 25% of people carry details about who they want to call after a serious accident, the campaign that encourages people to do this started in May 2005 by Bob Brotchie of the East Anglia Ambulance Service in the UK. The idea has been released since the July 7, 2005 London bombings.
When interviewed on BBC Radio 4's program Today on July 12, 2005, Brotchie said:
"I reflect on some of the difficult calls I attended, where people can not talk to me because of injury or illness and we can not find who they are.I find that many people, obviously, carry mobile phones and we use them to find who they are. in my mind that if we had a uniform approach to searching on the phone for emergency contacts it would make things easier for everyone. "
Brotchie also urged mobile manufacturers to support the campaign by adding ICE to the list of phone numbers of all new phones.
With this additional information and medical information, the first respondent can access this information from the victim's phone in the event of an emergency. In the event of major trauma, it is important to have this information in gold time, which may increase the likelihood of survival.
In Germany, the concept of Emergency Cases was criticized for several reasons:
- Medical service personnel on the site usually do not have time to contact relatives. Information stored on the phone is useless for medical care prior to the hospital.
- Contacting a seriously wounded relative is a sensitive task not done by phone from the start.
It is recommended that a person carry relevant contact information and medical information in writing in a person's wallet, and not rely on ICE contacts as the primary means of identification.
Many smart phone models have ICE contact information functions integrated into the OS or available as an application. Storing duplicate phone numbers on phones without special ICE functions may cause ICE and regular contacts to be merged, or cause caller ID to fail for incoming calls from close friends or relatives. (To avoid this, some people use the "tel:" URI scheme to place phone numbers in the ICE contact "home" field.)
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Phone locked
For security purposes, many cell phone owners are now locking their phones, requiring a passcode to be entered to access the device. This hampers the ability of first responders to access ICE phone list entries. In response to this problem, many device manufacturers have provided a mechanism to specify some text that will be displayed when the phone is locked. The phone owner can specify "In Emergency Case" contacts as well as "Lost and Found" contacts. For example, BlackBerry phones allow "Owner" information to be set in the Settings menu -> Options -> Owner. Android users running Android Nougat (Android 7.0) or higher also have the ability to program emergency information and contact details accessible to others via the emergency call screen when the device is locked. Emergency contacts can be added to the iPhone lock screen with the iOS Health app, and accessed by tapping or scrolling to the Emergency dialer, where calls to 911 or other pre-specific numbers can be made, and the Medical ID button is displayed as well. When accessing this Medical ID, user name, health information, allergies and medications may be listed, together with the ability to directly contact the registered emergency contact.
Alternatively, some handsets provide access to the ICE contact list directly from the "locked" screen. There is also a smartphone "app" (app) that allows special ICs and emergency information to display on the "locked" screen. For example, the Android Medical ID application allows quick access to medical information and emergency contacts.
See also
- E.123 (language-independent version of ICE)
- Orsec Plan
- Medical identification tags
References
External links
- Snopes.com echoes debunking the myth of the ICE virus
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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