Code Yellow

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Code Yellow

A message announced over a hospital’s public address system alerting the staff and the need to prepare for:
(1) A pending emergency or external disaster—e.g., multitrauma, major effects of storm, etc.
(2) An internal emergency
(3) A missing patient
(4) A severe weather alert
(5) An emergency C-section
(6) A combative person
(7) A person under the influence of alcohol or drugs on the loose
(8) A bomb threat

code yellow

Hospital A message announced over a hospital's public address system alerting the staff about, and the need to prepare for, a pending emergency or external disaster–eg, multitrauma, major effects of storm, etc

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