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Hospital emergency codes are coded messages often announced over a public address system of a hospital to alert staff to various classes of on-site emergencies. The use of codes is intended to convey essential information quickly and with minimal misunderstanding to staff while preventing stress and panic among visitors to the hospital.
Code 1: A time critical event with response requiring lights and siren. This usually is a known and going fire or a rescue incident. Code 2: Unused within the Country Fire Authority. Code 3: Non-urgent event, such as a previously extinguished fire or community service cases (such as animal rescue or changing of smoke alarm batteries for the ...
Code Purple can mean: the US Environmental Protection Agency code for an air quality index between 201 and 300; a hospital emergency code;
Code Maroon is the highest risk level, only appearing when the air is deemed hazardous. When ozone pollution reaches those levels, the EPA recommends that everyone avoid exerting themselves outside.
For instance, a suspected cardiac or respiratory arrest where the patient is not breathing is given the MPDS code 9-E-1, whereas a superficial animal bite has the code 3-A-3. The MPDS codes allow emergency medical service providers to determine the appropriate response mode (e.g. "routine" or "lights and sirens") and resources to be assigned to ...
Between 201 to 300, the AQI is at code purple. This denotes a health alert, the agency says. There's an increased risk of negative health effects for everyone. Once the index reaches 301, the AQI ...
With cool temperatures incoming, Asheville shelters have called Code Purple for Nov. 20, the first of the season, activating emergency shelter beds.
Some codes like "code blue" and "code red" have become more or less standardized, but I get the sense that many others are not. But I can't tell from the article as it now stands because it isn't arranged to inform the reader about how the codes developed or which are more or less standardized.