Emergency Alert Code

 Emergency Alert Code in Healthcare Organization

Many hospital staffs, healthcare practitioner, patients, visitors have been in hospital during an emergency and incident , and whether they aware of it or not, have heard an emergency protocols set into motion. Depending on the situation, a hospital will alert staffs via an emergency codes. Hospitals and some small healthcare organizations are use various code names to alert their staffs and healthcare practitioners to an emergency or other indecent and accidental event. All these codes can be communicated through an intercom in the hospital and organization or directly to staff using communication devices like pagers etc.

                                                                   

Some Emergency Codes-

1. Code Blue- Medical Emergency

2. Code Red- Accident and Emergency (Internal Disaster)

3. Code Orange- Hazardous Material Spill

4. Code Pink- Child Abduction

5. Code Purple- Missing Patients

6. Code Gray- Security Threat

7. Code Brown- External Disaster

8. Code White- Pediatric Medical Emergency