[Elvish]

Code Yellow- Bomb
Silver - Hostage
Blue - cardiac/resp arrest
Pink - infant abduction
Orange - hazmat spill, nuclear
Black - Utility failure or cyberterrorism
Gray - Security
Red - fire
Stroke - CVA coming to the ED in need of clotbusters
Stemi - cardiac cath needed in ED
BOLO - (Be On the LookOut) missing person, followed by name & description
As always we have the traumas (level I trauma ctr) -- trauma 1, peds, OB traumas

Code Elvis is creative.

[WolfpackRed]

Dr. Armstrong, to area xxx...disruptive person at area xxx, need security.

[loricatus]

Dr. Red to XXXX-fire (but, I like the Dr. Firestone one better)
Dr. Spock-infant abduction
Code H- post-partum hemorrhage
Code CC (stands for crash cart)-cardiac arrest
Peds code A- pediatric cardiac arrest
Code D- internal or external disaster

[grace90]

RRT to room XYZ: rapid response team needed
Code Blue: cardiopulmonary arrest
Code Yellow: visitor/associate emergency
Code Green: out of control patient/visitor, all male staff and security needed
Code Blue Junior: peds cardiopulmonary arrest
Code Pink: infant/peds abduction
Code Bear: bomb threat
Operation Assembly: Community disaster, prepare for large influx of patients

[HappyNurse2005]

Code H- post-partum hemorrhage
there is a code for postpartum hemorrhage? do you call it over the loudspeaker? why? what happens then?

when we have one, we just do what has to be done, no code called. but we are a large unit with many nurses/md's/anesthesia/OR available immediately. interesting, i would have never thought of a code for that

[Emmanuel Goldstein]

Originally Posted by hhrhrn41

Code Elvis.....for a patient that has escaped off the unit

LMAO!!!

That is hilarious.

[ayla2004]

we dont use a PA system in hospitals in the UK. to alert people to a crash cardiac/respiratory arresst we use the emergency button gets the ward running to the room via call lights. to get the crash team they are paged to the right ward/room.

[Roy Fokker]

• Code Blue: Cardiac/Respirator/Medical emergency
• Code Red: Fire
• Code Grey: Stroke
• Code 99: Combative Patient
• Code Pink: Abducted Infant
• Code Brown: Utility Failure
• Code Bravo: Bomb/Security/Hazard threat.

Our Rapid Response codes and weather codes are by regular announcements.
Hmmm... I don't know the code they use for "mass casualties imminent".

At a hospital I did my preceptorship at, instead of Code Blue, they used "Dr. Starling" [Why? I don't know. Maybe from the Frank-Starling Law of the Heart/Starling's law?]


cheers,

[neneRN]

Our hospital wide overhead announcements:
Stat Code: 99 for cardio/resp arrests
Stat Code: 14 for trauma alerts
Stat code: 5 for unruly pt/visitor, needs security
Stat code: 1 infant abduction
Stat Code: 3 fire
Stat code: 100 any anesthesiologist
Code Purple: ER is oversaturated and pts will be going to hall beds on the floors upstairs (happens fairly frequently in the winter)

Then we have a overhead pager system just heard in the ER; on this we call
Code STEMI- acute MI going to cath lab
Stroke Alert- pt with stroke Sx presenting within 3 hr window for tpa
Code Busy- anytime a nurse is getting overwhelmed, we call a code busy to that area, and all available staff (nurses and techs) respond to try to get the area caught up or a very sick pt stabilized

[southerngirl67]

Code Adam is our newborn abduction.
Code blue-resiratory arrest
code green-external disaster
Code red-fire
Code yellow-bombthreat
code black-bad weather
code strong-lifting help
code orange-evacuate

It is a headache just to remember it all!