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What to do in an emergency -Emergency crisis letter

By:  Katherine White  Monday, 21 December 2009

The emergency crisis letter gives medical treatment guidance for paramedics or hospital staff in the event of an emergency.  This letter should be signed by your doctor. A new Greek version was introduced in October 2009.

 

Explanatory letter for medical personnel

Read the letter:

  English language Emergency crisis letter

     

(95 kbytes)
 

  French language Emergency crisis letter

Our thanks to Pierre-Andre and Marie-Helene Mourgue d'Algue, the French Association Surrenales, Julie Watson and colleagues at the University of Southampton, for their assistance with the French translation.

(147 kbytes)

  Italian language Emergency crisis letter

Our thanks to  Antonella Campodall'Orto and the Associazione Italiana Pazienti Addison, for their assistance with the Italian translation.

(87 kbytes)

  German language Emergency crisis letter

Our thanks to Professor Wiebke Arlt of Birmingham Medical School and Julie Watson, for their assistance with the German translation

(136 kbytes)

Spanish language Emergency crisis letter

Our thanks to Dr Susan Webb of Barcelona Medical School and Estibaliz Gomez Unzueta, for their assistance with the Spanish translation

(105 kbytes)

Portuguese language Emergency crisis letter

Our thanks to Dr Manuel Carlos Lemos of the Health Sciences Research Centre, University of Beira Interior and Julie Watson and colleagues at the University of Southampton, for their assistance with the Portuguese translation.

(65 kbytes)

Russian language Emergency crisis letter

We would like to thank Dr George Sikhaluridze of the MedicAlert Foundation UK, for his work in developing the translation.

(133 kbytes)

Greek language Emergency crisis letter

A new Greek version was introduced in October 2009.

Our thanks to Dr Harry Kafetzidis of www.finedentistry.co.uk, Dr Elena Ioannidou and Julie Watson for their work on the Greek translation

(66 kbytes)
Read the manual section on: Crisis management (65 kbytes)
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