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Medical alert tattoos-A pinch of style along with patient safety
Emily A Lai1, Eric A Nesrsta2, Jason M Bodiford2
1McGovern Medical School, Houston, Texas.
Abstract:
The use of medical tattoos can potentially be life-saving. We present a 16-year-old patient who chose to tattoo a medical condition on her forearm. Her tattoo is more extensive than most medical tattoos and shows the measures a mother will take to ensure her daughter's safety. To our knowledge, there are no published guidelines recommending an ideal location or symbology for a medical tattoo. Such guidelines would be useful to artists, as well as to medical personnel in emergencies if the patient has a tattoo.
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