Talk:Hospital emergency codes

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http://tech.unfranchise.com CODE 911 INTERNAL OR EXTERNAL CAN ALSO DENOTE DISATERS. LEVELS 1,2 AND 3 IS AT OUR HOSPITAL IN TUCSON.

The article claims that these codes are used "worldside" (presumably "worldwide" is intended) then under "Standardization" reveals that this actually refers to part of one US State (S California) and even then is not a standard ( the colour codes denote different events at different hostpitals and are not universal), though the external links section does at least mention another US State (Texas). This is not "worldwide" by any measure - do they differ in, say, Maine? The Netherlands? The UK (as far as I'm aware the UK has no equivalent)? How about, say, Cameroon or Japan? Tonywalton | Talk 12:32, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Read the line "the colour codes denote different events at different hostpitals and are not universal".

Australian usage is mention. Yes, it is US-centric, but that is due to availablity of information.

Duggy 1138 04:41, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

1 Merging
2 Code Blue
3 Does anyone know what the code is for biohazard threat?
4 Code Green
5 Code Brown
6 Notes section
7 Citation Request for Critical Care Bypass in Ontario

[edit] Merging

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)

[edit] Code Blue

Yeah, I think the Code Blue deserves its own page so it can be expanded. And corrected. 64.180.200.241 (talk)

[edit] Does anyone know what the code is for biohazard threat?

It must be an issue in hopsitals because of potential chemical spills, quarantine, and infectious agents accidents.

From side references in some of the lists used to create this page, I think (unless the hospital has a specific code) it'd come under "Internal Disaster", unless it's a chemical weapon threat, which may be treated as a "Bomb Threat". As with any of these, it varies from hospital to hospital.

Duggy 1138 06:46, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Code Green

I remember reading in a hospital "new employee guide" that 'code green' meant the use of force--like a person using a weapon. I don't remember the exact wording, aside from the word "force." This was with a Baltimore, MD hospital called Kernan Hospital. 70.21.2.135 17:54, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Code Brown

On February 21, 2007, Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada issued a Code Brown for a potential spill. According to the wiki article, a Code Brown usually denotes external disaster, but I think hazardous spill should be added to that list.

It is also used in the Calgary Health Region for hazardous material spills.139.48.25.61 (talk) 20:13, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Notes section

This is my first visit to this page. I noticed that some sentences have links to the pages' Notes section (ex. ^[1] ), but when I click on any of those links I go nowhere. I hardly went through the revision history, but it seems it has been like this for a while. Peter Tangney (talk) 01:30, 23 February 2008 (UTC)