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  2. Emergency service response codes - Wikipedia

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    Code 1: A time critical case with a lights and sirens ambulance response. An example is a cardiac arrest or serious traffic accident. Code 2: An acute but non-time critical response. The ambulance does not use lights and sirens to respond. An example of this response code is a broken leg. Code 3: A non-urgent routine case. These include cases ...

  3. Hospital emergency codes - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. CEN 1789 - Wikipedia

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    The colour yellow was chosen primarily because it remains visible to almost all people in all lighting conditions, including the majority of those with colour-blindness. One ambulance service in Europe that does not conform to the standard is the Scottish Ambulance Service, who use white vehicles with ambulance Battenburg markings.

  5. List of RAL colours - Wikipedia

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    Sand yellow: Vehicles of the Afrika Korps 1941–1943 RAL 1003: Signal yellow: Latvian Pasažieru vilciens (Vivi) train main livery colour RAL 1004: Golden yellow: Caterpillar Yellow RAL 1005: Honey yellow: RAL 1006: Maize yellow: RAL 1007: Daffodil yellow: RAL 1011: Brown beige: RAL 1012: Lemon yellow: RAL 1013: Oyster white: RAL 1014: Ivory ...

  6. Medical Priority Dispatch System - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. An ambulance, an empty lot and a loophole: One man's fight ...

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    First he bought an ambulance to live in, and then he bought a vacant lot to park the ambulance on (and found a loophole in the LA municipal code that allows him to store his stuff on the property ...

  8. Battenburg markings - Wikipedia

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    A Volvo pump truck from South Australian Fire with red-and-yellow Battenburg markings. Battenburg markings or Battenberg markings [a] are a pattern of high-visibility markings developed in the United Kingdom in the 1990s and currently seen on many types of emergency service vehicles in the UK, Crown dependencies, British Overseas Territories and several other European countries including the ...

  9. Ambulance - Wikipedia

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    A Ford E-Series ambulance with its emergency lights on in Boston An NHS ambulance in south-west London. An ambulance is a medically-equipped vehicle used to transport patients to treatment facilities, such as hospitals. [1] Typically, out-of-hospital medical care is provided to the patient during the transport.