Patient ID card

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A patient ID card is a document with which its owner certifies a diagnosis , a medical treatment or diagnostics carried out , the need for long-term medication or related laboratory values . It can be presented for further treatments and, in the case of medical emergencies, serves as an emergency ID to inform the treating doctor about important illnesses and their treatment.

Patient ID cards can be multilingual and contain contact information for relatives. They can be associated with an organ donor card . However, the certification of facts by third parties must be separated from the independent declaration of intent specified in the organ donor card. There are also offers such. B. from health insurances or aid organizations where the patient ID card with the appropriate imprints serves as an advertising medium.

Examples include the vaccination card , the allergy passport , the mother pass , the blood donor card , the X-ray passport and medication passes for. B. when taking phenprocoumon . After operations, for example, for cardiac pacemakers or endoprostheses , implant IDs are issued that describe the implant in more detail or explain how metal detectors respond during personal checks. Specialized ID cards are offered for chronic diseases such as diabetes mellitus and epilepsy .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Emergency ID card from the Techniker Krankenkasse. (PDF; 683 kB) Accessed December 16, 2011 .
  2. ↑ Home WPI-Verlag. Retrieved December 16, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Implant passport to be presented during personal controls. (PDF; 834 kB) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved December 16, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bbraun.ch
  4. ^ Diabetes pass of the German Diabetes Society. Retrieved December 16, 2011 .
  5. ↑ State Association for Epilepsy Self-Help in North Rhine-Westphalia: International Epilepsy Emergency ID. Retrieved December 16, 2011 .