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Hospital emergency codes are coded messages often announced over a public address system of a hospital to alert staff to various classes of on-site emergencies. The use of codes is intended to convey essential information quickly and with minimal misunderstanding to staff while preventing stress and panic among visitors to the hospital.
In Japan, the triage system is mainly used by health professionals. The categories of triage, in corresponding color codes, are: Category I: Used for viable victims with potentially life-threatening conditions. Category II: Used for victims with non-life-threatening injuries, but who urgently require treatment.
25-pair color code chart used in certain kinds of wiring. A color code is a system for encoding and representing non-color information with colors to facilitate communication. This information tends to be categorical (representing unordered/qualitative categories) though may also be sequential (representing an ordered/quantitative variable).
ISO 22324. ISO 22324:2022, Security and resilience — Emergency management — Guidelines for colour-coded alerts, is an international standard developed by ISO/TC 292 Security and resilience. This document provide guidelines for color codes to indicate severity of hazards in public warnings. There are many different systems are already in use ...
Equipment is connected to the medical gas pipeline system via station outlets (US) or terminal units (ISO). Medical gas systems are commonly color coded to identify their contents, but as coding systems and requirements (such as those for bottled gas) vary by jurisdiction, the text or labeling is the most reliable guide to the contents ...
Barcode technology in healthcare. Barcode technology in healthcare is the use of optical machine-readable representation of data in a hospital or healthcare setting. Dating back to the 1970s, there has been a continual effort among healthcare settings to adopt barcode technology. [ 1] In the early 2000s, published reports began to illustrate ...
The Broselow Tape, also called the Broselow pediatric emergency tape, is a color-coded length-based tape measure that is used throughout the world for pediatric emergencies. The Broselow Tape relates a child's height as measured by the tape to their weight to provide medical instructions including medication dosages, the size of the equipment ...
Code Brown[edit] On February 21, 2007, Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada issued a Code Brown for a potential spill. According to the wiki article, a Code Brown usually denotes external disaster, but I think hazardous spill should be added to that list.