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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 ...
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Penrose Hospital is a 364-bed hospital located in Colorado Springs, Colorado and owned by Penrose-Saint Francis Health Services. The campus includes Penrose Hospital, the Penrose Cancer Center, the E Tower building, the Penrose Pavilion, and the John Zay House. [1] The hospital is a Level II trauma center. [2]
Template added Ron h jones (Talk) 00:37, 8 November 2017 (UTC) It would certainly be odd to have the article in British English, given that the emergency codes described are not in general use in British hospitals. --Ef80 11:45, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
A pregnant woman is recovering in the hospital after she was stabbed multiple times by a pizza delivery driver over the size of her tip, according to reports. The incident happened on Sunday, Dec ...
A "cocaine alert" sign posted by GGD Amsterdam: the sign reminds people to "Call 112 for an ambulance."112 was first standardised as the pan-European number for emergency services following the adoption of recommendation [1] by the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations (CEPT) in 1976 and has since been enshrined a CEPT Decision ECC/DEC/(17)05.
H/O: history of ... HOB: head of bed (usually followed by number of degrees of elevation, e.g., HOB 10°) HOCM: hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy: HONK: hyperosmolar nonketotic state HOPI: History of present illness: H&P: history and physical examination (which very often are considered as a pair) HPA: hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis ...