Set up your pet's emergency profile in Animiyo

An emergency profile is not the full clinical record: it is its useful summary. It has to answer, in a few seconds, the questions a rescuer always asks, in the same order. Add too much and it becomes unreadable, cut too much and it becomes useless. The rule is simple: only what changes a decision in the first hour gets in.

• Name, species, breed, age and current weight, because almost every dose depends on weight.
• The number of your usual clinic and of a service open at night and on holidays.
• Known allergies and any adverse drug reactions seen in the past.
• Current treatments, with active ingredient, dose and time of the last administration.
• Relevant chronic conditions, for example heart disease, diabetes or epilepsy.
• Microchip number and up to date contacts for the owner and a second person.
• Notes on temperament, for example whether the animal bites out of fear when in pain.

In Animiyo the emergency profile is built from the animal's card, surfacing the details that would otherwise stay scattered between documents and the medication log. Follow these steps in order: each one adds a piece the previous step makes useful.

1. 1

   Open the card and complete the basics

   Check species, breed, date of birth and weight. If the weight is missing or old, weigh the animal before you go on: it is the value nearly every emergency drug is calculated from.

2. 2

   Record the clinic and the out of hours service

   Enter your clinic's number and, as a separate entry, one for a practice open at night and on holidays. In an emergency there is no time to discover the usual surgery is closed.

3. 3

   List allergies and adverse reactions

   Write every drug or substance that has already caused trouble, with one word on the type of reaction. A single clear line here can stop something dangerous being given.

4. 4

   Bring current treatments in from the medication log

   For each drug note active ingredient, dose and frequency. If the app logs administrations, the time of the last dose is already there and should stay visible.

5. 5

   Add the conditions that change the choices

   A few essential entries are enough: heart disease, diabetes or epilepsy immediately steer whoever is helping. Skip the full history, which here distracts rather than helps.

6. 6

   Make the profile reachable and test it

   Check that the profile opens in a few screens and ask someone at home to find the clinic number in it. If it takes more than ten seconds, simplify.

A perfect profile locked in your phone is no use if the phone is off, far away or locked. This is the most neglected part: making sure someone else can reach the data without you.

• Share the card with a second trusted person, so the data lives on two devices.
• Keep an exported copy with your household documents, for when there is no connection.
• Write on the tag how to reach the public profile, if you use one.
• Agree with whoever keeps the animal in your absence where the information is, before it is needed.

A wrong profile is worse than no profile, because it makes people trust a false detail. Updating must not become work, though: tie it to the moments when the data actually changes, not to an abstract calendar.

1. Update the weight at every weigh in and delete the old value at once.
2. Review treatments when you start, change or stop a drug, not a month later.
3. Add every new adverse reaction the same day you see it.
4. Correct contacts after a move or a new number, alongside the registry.
5. Run a full review twice a year, on the same days as the boosters.