There are more than 215 million cell phone users in
the United States today. Industry experts expect there will be
over 300 million users by the year 2010. The U.S. Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention estimates that more than 1,600,000 emergency room
patients cannot provide contact information each year because they were
incapacitated. Many individuals, including teenagers, leave the
home each day without any identification or emergency contact
information, yet carry a cell phone. A global campaign, started in
the UK in 2005, has spread to the United States calling for individuals
to program an In Case of Emergency contact (ICE for short)
into their mobile phones.
Simply add an entry in the
contact list in your cell phone under ICE with the name and phone number
of the person who should be contacted during an emergency. For
more than one contact name, simply enter ICE1, ICE2 and ICE3, etc.
The ICE acronym allows emergency personnel to quickly access the right
names from a cell phone's address book. It can save valuable time,
since many people identify family members only by name in their cell
phone, making them indistinguishable from other entries. Get ICE'd
- it just might save your life.
There are more than 215 million cell phone users in
the United States today. Industry experts expect there will be
over 300 million users by the year 2010. The U.S. Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention estimates that more than 1,600,000 emergency room
patients cannot provide contact information each year because they were
incapacitated. Many individuals, including teenagers, leave the
home each day without any identification or emergency contact
information, yet carry a cell phone. A global campaign, started in
the UK in 2005, has spread to the United States calling for individuals
to program an In Case of Emergency contact (ICE for short)
into their mobile phones.