Hospital codes refer to emergency situations, but these codes are different for each hospital. For example, “code blue” may refer to a life threatening medical emergency.

Code blue signifies a critical medical emergency. Find out what other hospital codes mean and why some hospital associations want to standardize them.

“It’s before Code Blue,” he said, referring to the common term for patients in acute distress. “Somewhere between two-thirds and fourth-fifths of Code Blue incidents are preceded by this.” ...

CHICAGO — A “code blue button” to activate code teams via text message may expedite epinephrine administration and increase survival to discharge vs. code activation by overhead page or ...