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The SOS Card is a multi-lingual emergency ID with your most relevant medical information. With the same size as a credit card, it easily fits in your purse and can be a big help for the doctors when you urgently need medical help, especially in countries where you cannot speak the local language.
The multi-lingual SOS Card is a photo card in the shape of a credit card, so you can easily carry it in your purse or wallet.
The front side of the SOS Card shows identification features:
(1) Name (in native writing)
(2) Pronunciation using the international phonetic alphabet (IPA)
(3) Date of birth (ISO notation: Year-Month-Day), Sex
(4) Language skills as ISO code: mother tongue on dark blue, foreign languages on light blue
(5) Blood group and Rhesus factor
(6) User-name in OCR (for the reader pen) and as barcode (3 of 9)
(7) Photo
(8) 1/1: rarely, the emergency ID consists of more than one card; card sequence number
The reverse side shows essential medical information for the case of an emergency:
(1) in the upper part: pre-existing illnesses, allergies etc. in English, Chinese, Spanish, French, Russian and Thai
(2) in the lower part: current medication, the active substances are given as generic names and as CAS number
(3) Via the web-site, using the user-name (given on the front of the card) and the Card Validation Code (CVC), all indications of this card can be retrieved in further languages. Furthermore, a complete list of medication, contact data of family members, documents (such as, an advance health care directive). The CVC may be hidden behind a scratch-off field on some cards.
If so I am sure you already know the blessings of a credit card. With one of these you can get money from an ATM pretty much anywhere in the world in just a few seconds.
What about your medical history?
If you have the misfortune to suffer a traffic accident or if you are just taken by “Montezuma´s revenge” (traveller's diarrhoea), you will quickly realise that the English skills of the local medical personnel is often limited (… and I bet you don't know your GP's fax number by heart).
The SOS Card is an international traveller's “health card” – a photo card showing your name, date of birth, blood type, as well as all important medical preconditions (such as, allergies, pre-existing illnesses, implants, etc.) translated into several languages. Wherever you go, the local doctor or paramedic should be able to read at least one of these languages.
This multi-lingual SOS Card is a must for
The SOS Card Project cooperates with medical doctors, hospitals, international fellowships, friendship clubs etc. world-wide. They can help you to get your own SOS Card.
That's so simple: Become a member in The SOS Card Project! We have put together some information on this page.
Please refer to the Frequently Asked Questions or contact a member close to you or send us an e-mail: the.sos.card.project@gmail.com
Tell your colleagues at work, your friends, your neighbours. It may end up to save their live!
Please participate in our scientific survey about emergency pictographs: http://www.sos-card.info/survey
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