How is code blue announced at your facility?

Code 7C and the room number. The Code Team: 1 nurse from ICU/ CCU, 1 from ER, ER physician, nursing supervisor, RT, and 1 person from security to direct traffic.

we call the codes ourselves, even students. We pick up the nearest phone, dial 411 and that links us to the overhead system, then we say "Code Blue -Room whatever", The first number of the rooms is the floor, like room 312 is floor 3, room 12. For Peds cases we follow the same routine, but say "Peds Stat- room whatever."

We have a tone that is audible to diffentiate the overhead page, for any type of code - disaster, fire, bomb, tornado, dr. stat, missing infant/ child. We use code blue for adult, green for peds, and pink for neonate. Also, we have a code purple for an acute MI rolling into the ER. Can't wait until they start calling a code gray or code white for CVA!

We are on a quiet system also, so you almost never hear the overhead, except for an emergency.

For codes, our operators call "STAT" and either medical or pediatric. They sometimes call for specific teams, like "STAT, medical, anesthesia" you know someone is getting tubed. But if they need the whole gang it's just "Stat, medial" and the floor number.

We're a teaching hospital too, so the residents run our codes. Whoevers in the MICU that month. We also have a code team that does nothing but run codes and teach us how to do codes. They are AWESOME. We have run really nasty long codes and the director never breaks a sweat, and always has something positive to say. One of the few things we do well at my institution!!

The hospital uses the overhead system w/ "Code Blue", then the dept./floor.

The OR, however, is a restricted area so we take care of codes differently. We have a speaker box system for the perioperative areas only. (Pre-op, OR rooms, and PACU) The calls on these boxes are not heard in any other areas of the hospital.

When a code occurs, the RN, or other avail person in the room, uses the 'alarm all call' on the box and we are supposed to say "Anesthesiologist to room ___ stat" three times. No one from outside the dept. comes to our codes.

We announce "code blue room 7208-1". This is heard over the entire hospital. There has been some reseach done on family presence during code blues, and they have found the family has a better emotional outcome when they are present during the code. Sounds strange I know but families deal better when they see that everything was done for their loved one.

The overhead sound system pages "Code 44, Room 501" at our hospital. Yes, some people may get nervous. They can go home. We have a job to do.

We also have a "quiet hospital". Each patient care area has a button mounted on the wall. When you find a person who has arrested, you simply hit the button, and the code pagers are automatically activated. Members of the code team carry code pagers. The overhead page " CODE 9" follows. Often, we are well on our way before the overhead page occurs. The downside to our overhead paging, is that prior to any page, there is an agonizing series of beeps prior to the announcement. It drives us crazy!

Code 199+ floor (no room #)

At my hospital, we announced codes by "Code Blue" and whatever unit the Code is occuring-1 North, 2 North,2 South,OB, ICU,ER etc--It was the same at the last hospital that I worked at.

:) At the facility I work at, they announce Code 4, then the room number. We have a switch on the wall that we pull and it registers the code and room number with the switchboard. We also have to call 5277, which goes to the switchboard. :)

Wanda