Auto Dialer Medical Alarm System
A Health Care Article Contributed by Mita Majumdar
Medical Alarm System Basics
A medical alarm system is a personal emergency response system which is designed to let a disabled person or an older person living alone to summon help in an emergency. The medical alarm system is especially useful to people who are blind, can not hear, or can not speak or understand English but are in need of medical care.
The three basic components of a medical alarm system are:
1) A wireless personal medical alarm with a push button and worn by the user - the most popular medical alarm styles are bracelet and pendant style alarms;
2) A console that receives the signal that the medical alarm has been activated and then sends a signal to the emergency monitoring center;
3) The emergency monitoring center where a emergency response operator is available twenty four hours a day.
The operator will establish a two way voice contact with the user and dispatch the proper assistance in the form of emergency or medical services, and/or information to the designated relative or friend of the medical alarm system user.
The medical alarm system can be rented, leased or purchased depending on the company one chooses to subscribe with. The conditional cost of a medical alarm system varies from company to company, but many require the payment for the equipment, either as a purchase price or as a monthly rental or lease fee, plus the installation and a monthly monitoring fee, which ranges from $15 to $50.
Auto Dialing Medical Alarm System
According to statistics, one out of every three people over the age of sixty five falls at least once a year. In such cases, auto dialer medical alarm system can provide peace of mind to elderly people living independently, as also to their families. Emergency auto dialers are a very crucial part of a medical alarm system and work in conjunction with wireless medical pendants and the medical alarm console.
Functioning of a Medical Alarm System
When the emergency button on a wireless medical alarm pendant is activated a signal is sent to the console and the emergency auto dialer will begin to call all the emergency contacts in the order which has been programmed into the medical alarm system. If there is no answer by the first emergency contact, the emergency auto dialer will continue dialing down the list of numbers until it gets a response. Subscribers to a medical alarm system are always advised to program 911 emergency services into their auto dialers, just in case their other emergency contacts are unavailable.
Many auto dialers allow for voice messages which are pre-recorded and played to the emergency contacts in case the user is unconscious, suffering a heart attack, or is not able to communicate for some or the other reason. The auto dialing system can be programmed to call one or more family members, personal doctors, friends or 911 emergency services. Since auto dialers are a part of the medical alarm system and is rented or sold as one, the monthly monitoring fees cost from $15 to $50.
