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In 2000, the Hospital Association of Southern California (HASC) [15] [16] [17] determined that a uniform code system was needed after three people were killed in a shooting incident at a hospital after the wrong emergency code was called. While codes for fire (red) and medical emergency (blue) were similar in 90% of California hospitals queried ...
The protocol was originally developed as a memory aid for rescuers performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and the most widely known use of the initialism is in the care of the unconscious or unresponsive patient, although it is also used as a reminder of the priorities for assessment and treatment of patients in many acute medical and trauma ...
During a patient cardiac arrest in a hospital or other medical facility, staff may be notified via a code blue alert. [2] A medical response team, based on the institution's practices and policies, attends to the emergency. [3] The team will perform life saving measures, including CPR, in order to re-establish both cardiac and pulmonary ...
These diagnosis and procedure codes are used by health care providers, government health programs, private health insurance companies, workers' compensation carriers, software developers, and others for a variety of applications in medicine, public health and medical informatics, including:
Some protocols also utilise a single-letter suffix which may be added to the end of the code to provide additional information, e.g. the code 6-D-1 is a patient with breathing difficulties who is not alert, 6-D-1A is a patient with breathing difficulties who is not alert and also has asthma, and 6-D-1E is a patient with breathing difficulties ...
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Apart from clinical care implications, the MET system represents a political change within the hospital hierarchy, as it empowers nurses on the ward to summon help from senior critical care medical staff, rather than the traditional route of moving up the medical hierarchy starting with the intern.
I created this page as somewhere for some of the smaller Code pages (Yellow & Orange), I think, to merge to. However, I'm happy if Black & possibly Blue (Although Blue may deserve it's own page.) So MERGE Code Black into this page, or delete Code Black, because I think all the information is here. Duggy 1138 07:59, 26 October 2006 (UTC)