ICE Your Cell Phone

It is recommended that you mark entries in your cell phone with ICE (In Case of Emergency) for any contacts who should be called in an emergency. 

Emergency responders look through your cell phone for ICE contacts to reach if you are unable to respond.  These contacts should be people who have Medical Power of Attorney for you, or that can provide responders with medical information about you.

It might be wise to have two contacts in there and have one of them be a person who is not likely to be with you during an accident.


There are two ways you can do this. 

1. Create a contact in your cell phone with the name ICE and add the phone number(s) of the person/people that should be contacted in an emergency. 
2. Edit an existing entry and modify their name to begin with ICE (on some cell phones this may be their first name while others it may be their last.  The objective is to be able to alphabetically scroll through your contacts to an entry which reads ICE.) i.e., It might read "ICE Jack Spratt" or "ICE Spratt, Jack".

It is recommended that you place a sticker or marking on your phone that indicates that you have an ICE contact. Here is a link to a company that sells the stickers. 

Here is an article on WebMD regarding this topic ... and another article in Wikipedia.


Had you heard of this before?  Are you going to do it?  Leave a comment and let me know.