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Printable Emergency Medical Card — Free Wallet-Size Template

3 min read · Updated 2026-07-19

When you can't speak for yourself, a small card in your wallet can do the talking: who you are, what you're allergic to, what you take, and who to call. Paramedics and ER staff are trained to check wallets and phones for exactly this kind of information.

This page has a free printable template you can fill in by hand — no email address required, no sign-up. Print it, write clearly in pen, and put it behind your ID.

The template

Click Print this card, cut along the borders, and fold or keep the two cards back-to-back in your wallet. Printing only prints the cards — not the rest of this page.

⚕ Emergency Medical Card
Name
Date of birthBlood type
Emergency contacts
1.☎
2.☎
Physician / clinic
☎
⚠ Allergies & Medical Info
Allergies (drug, food, latex…)
Current medications (name · dose)
Conditions / implants / devices

What to include (and why)

  • Full name and date of birth — the two identifiers every hospital uses to match you to a record.
  • Allergies, with the reaction — "penicillin — anaphylaxis" is far more useful to a care team than "penicillin" alone. Include drug, food, and latex allergies.
  • Current medications with doses — name, strength, and how often. Blood thinners, insulin, seizure medications, and steroids are especially important for emergency staff to know about.
  • Medical conditions — diabetes, epilepsy, heart conditions, bleeding disorders, transplant history.
  • Implants and devices — pacemaker, insulin pump, stents, metal implants (relevant before imaging).
  • Emergency contacts — two people, with phone numbers. Add their relationship to you.
  • Your physician or clinic — so the ER can request your history quickly.
  • Blood type — helpful, but only if you actually know it; leave it blank rather than guessing.

What to leave off

Keep the card useful, not risky, if your wallet is lost:

  • No Social Insurance / Social Security number.
  • No health-card or insurance policy numbers — carry your actual insurance card separately.
  • No home address unless you want it there.

Where to keep it

  • Wallet, behind your ID — the first place responders look.
  • Phone case — a folded copy between the phone and the case is a common trick.
  • On the fridge — for older adults, many local EMS programs (often called "Vial of Life" or "File of Life") ask for exactly this information on the fridge door, because that's where crews are trained to look during home calls.
  • Glove box — useful after a car accident.
  • A caregiver's wallet too — if you care for a parent or child, carry a card for them as well.

Keep it current

An out-of-date card can be worse than no card. Recheck it:

  • after every medication change,
  • after any new diagnosis or procedure,
  • and at minimum twice a year (tie it to clock changes, like smoke-alarm batteries).

The digital version

A paper card is the baseline — it works when your phone is locked or dead. But it's worth pairing it with a digital version:

  • iPhone Medical ID (Health app → Medical ID) is visible from the lock screen and shown to 911 dispatchers in some regions.
  • MediWall generates a wallet-size Emergency Card automatically from the allergies, medications, and conditions you already track in the app — so when a prescription changes, your card is one tap from being current again. Everything stays on your phone; there's no account and no server.

This guide is general information to help you organize your health details — it isn't medical advice. Ask your care team what they'd want to see on your card.