In this paper we present a description of the Galois representation attached to an elliptic curve defined over a 2-adic field K, in the case where the image of inertia is non-abelian. There are two possibilities for the image of inertia, namely Q 8 and SL 2 (F 3 ), and in each case we need to distinguish whether the inertia degree of K over Q 2 is even or odd. The result presented here can be implemented in an algorithm to compute explicitly the Galois representation in these four cases.