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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 ...
In emergency situations, the incident commander has the ability to waive certain policies and procedures in order to assure that immediate assistance is rendered to all patients coming into the hospital. This allows the hospital to handle a surge in patients and render life-saving care to the greatest number of patients. FEMA, (2004).
Mora said he immediately called a code blue — a hospital emergency code indicating a patient is in critical condition — knowing they’d need all the help they could get during the dire situation.
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]
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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)
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