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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.
In this example, to "reduce code" would mean to continue responding, but at Code 2 or Code 1, rather than discontinue altogether. Some emergency medical services use "Priority" instead: Priority 1: Dead on arrival Trauma/CPR; Priority 2: Emergency; Priority 3: Non-Emergency; Priority 4: Situation Under Control; Priority 5: Mass-casualty incident
The number works for all three emergency services. In most cases, a 9-1-1 call will be answered at a central facility, usually referred to as a Public Safety Answering Point, and operated, in most cases, by the police. The needs of the caller are identified, and the call is routed to the dispatcher for the emergency service(s) required.
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The Emergency Severity Index (ESI) is a five-level emergency department triage algorithm, initially developed in 1998 by emergency physicians Richard Wurez and David Eitel. [1] It was previously maintained by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) but is currently maintained by the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA).
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