HOSPITAL EMERGENCY CODES: Doctor Tells Real Stories

I’ve heard most of these in my time working at hospitals. My favorite thing to hear over the intercom is the music my hospital plays every time a baby is born!

Sadly a Code Blue has been called for me. I am very blessed to still be here. I owe my life to my doctors and nurses.

I once accidentally called a code blue as a patient when I was around 3 years old. I just pressed the blue button in my room and all the nurses came running. Thanks to this video and your other videos, I now know why and I will never do it again.

"Code Red, so this is *FIRE*" Would you say this code...is lit?

I have heard code blue. Twice it was my mom. Once in 2014, she survived.. then again on November 10 2017, it happened again and unfortunately she didn't make it. I pray every time I hear a code blue. I pray for the patient and their family. Because I know that pain and I don't wish it on anybody.

I figured out why she’s so nice!!! It’s because she lives in Canada

I feel like there should be a code for human trafficking suspects, I think that would be really helpful having said that I guess some of the codes actually said can come into that category...great video

Code yellow in a lot of Australian hospitals is basically “all operations cease” only focus on patients.

Code Rainbow - When all codes are fired at once

Code dignity; is a signal that someone has passed and they are asking for staff to line the hall outside the room to respect the family as they see their loved one for the last time.

Scariest code I've been a part of was what our hospital called "code SAM," suicide attempt code. I worked in a children's psych unit 🙃

0:03 I don't know why but I like how her head is tilted like that... Very comforting. Like she's telling you everything's gonna be alright

Code blue got called on me when I was born, I was sleeping while I was born, they thought I was dead because I didn't wake up and I came out feet first

One time my grandpa secretly left the hospital with my dad because he didn't want to shower in hospital's bathroom and when he came back and nurses asked him where he's been he told them he was in the chapel praying lmaoo

I've got three questions for you, all based on standard practices in aviation. 1. You mentioned that for a Code Blue as a senior resident you were often the one giving orders. In commercial aviation and particularly for demanding situations, such as take-offs and landings, a formal distinction is made between the "pilot flying" and the "pilot observing." The former is so focused on the demands of flying, that even something as obvious as another plane entering the runway may be missed. Watching for that is the task of the pilot observing. Is there an equivalent for a code team—meaning something whose task is to simply observe. I've been a part of codes and I recall a team being so intensely focused on the immediate that something crucial might be missed. 2. In aviation, there are no-discussion responses, typically for situation where the response has to be instantaneous. For instance, if during a landing either pilot calls for "go around," that procedure is instantly followed. Only when that go around is successfully executed, do the pilots discuss why. Does medicine and particularly Code Blue responses have something similar? I can see a hospital having a policy that if anyone on staff wants to call a Code Blue, there's no discussion. The code is called and its necessity (or not) discussed later. 3. To counter the pressures on pilots to land in bad weather despite their misgivings, some airlines have no-fault policies. When the pilots of a plane decide to make a go round or to divert to another airport, there will no discipline even if that decision later proves questionable. Do hospitals have similar no-fault policies about matters such as calling a Code Blue? It could prevent unnecessary delay.

I've also heard in a few Ontario hospitals CODE 333. Emergency call of OB/GYN to EMERGENCY for an imminent birth, or a birth that has happened at the doors of the ER DEPT. Thank you, your husband and every other Hospital worker for coming into work through COVID-19. I also would like to thank the Police Force, Fire Personnel and the Paramedics, as well as everyone else who are doing something to help this fight. The people working in warehouses, the truckers getting food to our stores, etc. From a very grateful heart, from Ontario, Canada, Jenn.

I am a licensed drug and alcohol counselor one of the things we had was code green, or asking for a green folder. This meant you had a client who was potentially violent threatening, etc. So if you are in a room, and you are scared, you’d ask for a green folder. This would alert a code green

My mom is an RN (med/surg Neuro) and they once had a code yellow because a patient snuck out to have a cigarette

I experienced the omega code. I had a c section and had like 10 minutes back in my room when I started bleeding out and the code was called. Within like 2 minutes there were like 20 nurses and drs working on me. Had to go back straight to OR for another emergency surgery. Was terrifying

2:16 in some areas code black means that there are too many patients and the hospital does not have enough resources to treat them and they have to reject patients no matter how sick or injured they are