Road-ID vs. X-Treme Sports ID

If you want to be safe, I'd go with the Road ID.  Besides the additional information, to be honest if I glanced down on a call and saw that on your arm in a majorly bad situation (which, lets face it, if you are unconscious, it's a bad situation), I'm going to ignore it and think it's one of those Livestrong bracelets.  I'm not sure all first responders would notice the Road ID for what it is (we're taught more so to look for the metal medic alert bracelets), but at least it looks different than what people wear as simple decoration.  And the metal part stands out.

Just my two cents from the field.

LESSON LEARNED THE HARD WAY/OPINION BASED ON EXPERIENCE!!  Someone with EMT experience on this site said that they might very well not notice the Road ID on your ankle, if you were injured and treated by them on the road.  Unfortunately, I learned from experience that is the case.

I crashed very badly and, though conscious, had a head injury which was bad enough that I was kind of out of it.  I had the Road ID on my ankle, and the EMTs didn't notice until we got almost to the hospital and I pointed it out.

I promptly ordered the wrist version, which might be more noticeable if someone is taking your pulse. 

I'm glad AmbulanceDrive posted, because that was my first thought... They'd just think the Xtreme ID was one of the myriad of "cool bracelets" available.

Because of this I ended up going with a medic alert style necklace from this company:

http://www.americanmedical-id.com/marketplace/build.php?buildwhat=necklace

Gave me plenty of room to put my name, docs name, and phone for my wife's cell and docs office.  It was more expensive but it looks decent too.

Joshua

I speak as a health professional and as one who has a medical condition requiring I wear medical ID, so this is just MHO.

My first thought is that the jelly bracelets are a fad and wearing one with life-saving information will be overlooked by first responders.

Secondly, once the fad of those silicone bracelets is over (isn't it already?) the company may no longer be around; remember, your medical info is not actually ON the bracelet - it's in a database somewhere. No more database means you're SOL. If you want to trust someone to keep your health info in a database, use a track-proven company like MedicAlert or RoadID. Better yet though, is to have an ID with the information clearly listed on the ID rather than directing someone to call a 1-800 number in order to retrieve your information.

This is what meant when I stated, "Better yet though, is to have an ID with the information clearly listed on the ID rather than directing someone to call a 1-800 number in order to retrieve your information." The X-Treme ID doesn't provide the ID info directly on the bracelet like RoadID does.

A friend told me he just orders printed tags from the address label companies that have his info on them.  They make some pretty nice, vinyl adhesive labels.  He has one on his bike, helmet, etc.

I guess the label companies don't really care what they print on these, whether it's your address or your contact/health info.