| Code Blue コード・ブルードクターヘリ緊急救命 |
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| Genre | Medical |
| Starring | See below |
| Opening theme | HANABI by Mr. Children |
| Country of origin | Japan |
| Language(s) | Japanese |
| No. of series | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 22 + special |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Jun Masumoto |
| Location(s) | Tokyo |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | Fuji TV |
| Picture format | NTSC |
| Original run | July 3, 2008 – May 22, 2010 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Code Blue (コード・ブルー -ドクターヘリ緊急救命- Kōdo Burū: Dokutā Heri Kinkyū Kyūmei, lit. Code Blue: Doctor Helicopter Emergency) is a Japanese television drama centered on the lives of medical staff working in an emergency medical service unit. Season 1 ran every Thursday July 3, 2008 through September 12, 2008. Season 2 ran January through May 2010[1].
Umika Kawashima as Miki Kuriyama (episode 1)
The episode starts off with four young doctors coming to the Shōyō University North Hospital Emergency and Critical Care Center as fellow residents who aim to become flight doctors. Among the four, Shiraishi received the first chance to get on the helicopter, and the team was soon called up to scramble to a scene where a young man caused a motorcycle accident and was in critical condition.
When the team arrived, however, Shiraishi was unable to promptly react to the condition of the man, nearly allowing cardiac arrest. Kuroda took over the role of the leading doctor and this crushed Shiraishi’s confidence. Meanwhile, instead of participating in operation, Hiyama unhappily received the order to contact family members of a 73-year-old woman who fell off from the third floor of her apartment building. After contacting family members, she learned that the woman’s sons were unwilling to visit her.
Outraged by this, Hiyama kept calling the patient’s relatives, looking for someone who is willing to visit the patient. In the end, a niece of the woman visited the hospital and thanked Hiyama for contacting her. After Shiraishi’s disappointment, Kuroda ordered Aizawa, who showed earlier calmness and skills required of the helicopter doctor, to get on the chopper.
Unlike Shiraishi, Aizawa calmly handled the assignment of rescuing a 19-year-old man’s life by cutting off the man’s arm that was squeezed in a pressing machine. Fujikawa, who was assigned to take care of Kuriyma, found out the girl’s suffering as a patient who needs to go through dialysis as part of her daily routine.[2]
An old woman who came to the emergency room the previous night was found lying on the floor of a restroom of the hospital. She was treated by Aizawa and simply sent back home, for she only had the problem of tooth pain. Kuroda decided to have Aizawa off the team for his irresponsible treatment of the patient and put Hiyama on instead.
Meantime, Shiraishi became in charge of a woman who came to the ER with a broken nose. The condition of her injury, her insistence that she fell down stairs, and her boyfriend’s extreme concern about her all pointed to the possibility of the violence caused by her boyfriend. When Shiraishi confronted the couple, she was told that the girl begged the boyfriend to break her nose, for she was suffering Body dysmorphic disorder and disliked her nose. She told Shiraishi that she felt relieved when her nose was crashed. Shiraishi pushed her to receive a reconstruction operation, but the girl rejected it. Without knowing what to do, Shiraishi asked what should be done to Saejima, who was the same age but working as a nurse. When Saejima tried to answer in usual, respectful language, which all nurses use when talking to doctors, Shiraishi told her to talk more like equals because they were the same age. Having heard this, Saejima suddenly in harsh language criticized her inability and indecisiveness and that she didn’t want to work for her. This abrupt change in Saejima's attitude further confused Shiraishi. Later, when the patient rejected her suggestion again, she snapped and threw all of her frustrations at her. This somehow changed the patient’s attitude and she agreed to go through the operation.
Before long, an emergency call came in and the team headed for a grocery market where a pregnant woman was bleeding. At the scene, however, Hiyama fell into panic when she found out that a boy who hit the woman on a bike also was in critical condition. Unable to assume the normal role as a doctor, Mitsui asked for a replacement. Aizawa scrambled to the scene and successfully saved the woman. Crushed, Hiyama came back by herself and told Shiraishi that she was trying to run away from the patient.
Fujikawa took charge of a young man who turned out to have a quirky fondness of enjoy putting on a bra. When his brain needed to be scanned by fMRI, it became clear that he has claustrophobia. Fujikawa first tried to treat the phobia by practicing him by putting him into a bathroom, but this attempt failed. In the end, Fujikawa managed to persuade the senior doctor to allow the patient to wear a bra for the MRI scan. The patient successfully overcame his claustrophobia.[3]
| Preceded by Tokyo DOGS |
Fuji TV Getsuku Drama October 19, 2009 – December, 2009 |
Succeeded by Moon Lovers |