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  2. 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.

  3. How do cold and heat health alerts work?

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    Yellow. Yellow alerts are issued during periods of hot or cold weather that are only likely to affect those who are particularly vulnerable, for example the elderly, or those with existing health ...

  4. Emergency service response codes - Wikipedia

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    Some agencies may use the terms "upgrade" and "downgrade" to denote an increase or decrease in priority. For example, if a police unit is conducting a Code 1 response to an argument, and the dispatcher reports that the argument has escalated to a fight, the unit may report an "upgrade" to a Code 3 response.

  5. Early warning system (medical) - Wikipedia

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    An early warning system (EWS), sometimes called a between-the-flags or track-and-trigger chart, is a clinical tool used in healthcare to anticipate patient deterioration by measuring the cumulative variation in observations, most often being patient vital signs and level of consciousness. [1]

  6. List of medical abbreviations: A - Wikipedia

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    aware and oriented or alert and oriented: A&Ox3: alert and oriented, times 3 (to person, place, and time) A&Ox4: alert and oriented, times 4 (to person, place, time, and circumstances) (often used interchangeably with A&Ox3) AODM: adult-onset diabetes mellitus (now called diabetes mellitus type 2) AOM: acute otitis media: AOE: acute otitis ...

  7. Does Medicare cover medical alert systems? Here’s what ...

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    How do medical alert devices work? Typical at-home medical alert systems have a base unit in the home that connects wirelessly to wall-mounted sensors or wearable devices. On-the-go, or mobile ...

  8. List of medical abbreviations: 0–9 - Wikipedia

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    Meaning Δ: diagnosis; change: ΔΔ: differential diagnosis (the list of possible diagnoses, and the effort to narrow that list) +ve: positive (as in the result of a test) # fracture: #NOF: fracture to the neck of the femur ℞ (R with crossed tail) prescription: Ψ: psychiatry, psychosis: Σ: sigmoidoscopy: x/12: x number of months x/40: x ...

  9. Storm watches versus warnings: What the alerts mean as NC ...

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    Here’s what to know about the difference between the weather alerts.