HOSPITAL EMERGENCY CODES: Doctor Tells Real Stories 

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’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!

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?

*Code Rainbow - When all codes are fired at once*

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 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 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.

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

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

I would LOVE a detailed video about code blue!

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.

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 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

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

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

Yes code blue in-depth please!

Code clear: someone has fallen down stairs in lego city

She's so happy, and I can't stop smiling when I watch her.

Omg I just remembered I think I had a code white called on me when I was 9. I went in for surgery and I had a bad reaction to the pain meds and it didn’t work. I was kicking, screaming, crying, cursing and much more. I couldn’t even think straight and all I remember saying was “TWO” then I blacked out.

i remember, when i was seeing my cardiologist somebody over the loud speaker said “Code blue. Code Blue” And everyone was frantic, and i was so confused. So i appreciate this

My parents told me that I had a code white called on me because of the steroids for my treatment and I went really crazy. They ended up putting me in a coma

You’re awesome 👏🏻 ❤️🙏🏻 Your educational videos saved me. I am a hospital new hired unit clerk in Toronto and I just watched your valuable beneficiary videos. I was overwhelmed and anxious before but you helped me to learn a lot concerning my course. Thanks a lot

I was a security dispatcher years back, at a hospital in London. We dispatched Code Blue ‘Pre-Arrest’ for those situations where it wasn’t quite a full Code Blue, but likely to evolve into one if left unattended.

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

When my oldest was born I remember nursing her in the middle of the night when all if a sudden a code pink was called. All you heard was dozens of feet running to the exits searching for the missing newborn. Everything went on lockdown instantly. I remember holding my daughter tightly and crying for the mother of the lost baby. Thankfully, there was no lost infant. A new mom charged her baby and put the soiled onesie and blanket in hamper in her room. Unfortunately, she didn't realize, probably from exhaustion, that she somehow accidentally removed the security tag aka baby low jack from her child and tossed it in with the dirty items. Soon the laundry staff came into her room to retrieve the clothes and linens. Once the staff member rolled her laundry bin containing the tag, across the security line, it set off the entire women's hospital and the connecting main hospital causing a lockdown, police response and mass panic. The person pushing the bin of laundry was stopped and contained immediately while staff searched her and the contents of the bin looking for a baby. Once the tag was found and scanned, it was confirmed that the newborn in question was safe in her mother's arms. It was such a scary moment but I gained a whole new respect for my hospital for how swift and amazing they handled such a terrifying, potentially life changing moment.

I LOVE HER SMILE SO MUCH .. MAKES ME FEEL POSITIVE AND OPTIMISTIC 🥺❤️

I love watching your channel! Even though I’m only 14 years old your channel really helps me with my future career (pediatrics/nicu) when im older.

At My Hospital Code Purple Means A Missing Patient! It's A Little Funny Sometimes Because Its Usually An Old Granny Or Grandpa Slowly Making A Run For It Hehehe

You don't have code pink? Hospitals I have been in use that for a missing baby from the maternity ward.

The main codes in Australia: Fire/smoke (Code red) Medical emergency (Code blue) Bomb threat (Code purple) Infrastructure and other internal emergencies (Code yellow) Personal threat (Code black) External emergency (Code brown) Evacuation (Code orange). Where I live, we also have Cyclone (code white, I think?)

I've been wanting to learn about all the codes so thank you for doing this! My body is an a**hole and I spend a lot of time in and out of hospitals/ER so everything I learn on your channel is awesome 🥰

Yes, do a Code Blue video!

Code brown. The code we use when baby craps in their diaper

I LOVE how she‘s really in love with her job!! 🥰

Wow! I'm glad to watch this video with subtitles. Thank you very much 🥰

I was in the ER for a viral infection and I heard them say “code blue” and a bunch of people started running

Code blue video!! I’m a nurse and it would be awesome to hear it from your perspective

Hospitals are so organised! I find this amazing

there was a code blue while i was waiting in the er when i thought i broke my finger and like 20 mins later then had to have a moment of silence bc they had died😔

I went to an emergency room once for my depression and I got really bored because no one was there and the tv wasn’t working and I started walking around and me being the dumbass I am pressed the code blue button without knowing and it still haunts me

*you should watch a greys anatomy episode and point out what’s likely to happen in a hospital and what’s not🙂🤠*

When i worked at the hospital (ER tech then moved on to EMT) We had code pink (cardiac/respiratory arrest now code blue). We also had CODE 99 which is all male personnel, usually called for an extremely combative patient, frequently in psych or the ER.

Thanks for making this video. I loved watching it and it is very informative. the way you created the video and spoke it grabbed my attention for the whole 9 minutes 37 seconds!

My mom was in the hospital before she had me and my siblings and she had a code blue called on her because she was accidentally triple-dosed on morphine (the student nurse forgot to write her dosages down and someone else came in and THEY forgot as well so a third dose happened and... yeah) but thankfully she was able to be resuscitated and she’s still going strong to this day 💙💙💙

I’m 9.... I don’t have a job...why do I watch this stuff.

Code Green in the hospital I worked in meant that there was a medical emergency within the hospital. For example, a pregnant lady entered the hospital in active labor. Another time a co-worker passed out and she wasn’t aware of her surroundings.

woah amazed at what you all do at the hospitals! real life heroes

One time a code yellow was called on my mum because she had just been transferred from one hospital to another and they used coloured socks to recognise different types of patients or something and she was in socks that were a colour for her category in the previous hospital but after being in the new hospital for a few days she decided to leave to buy a drink from the sainsbury's around the corner and someone who worked for the hospital reported seeing a patient with yellow socks leaving the hospital in a wheelchair and the yellow socks signified alzheimers, dementia, senile, potentially confused etc and when me and my sister and dad arrived to the hospital to go to a meal with my mum all of the staff were in a frenzy because there was a missing patient but it was just my mum accidentally creating drama

Code dignity: Someone close to the hospital staff has passed and when free doctors lay a rose in their locker/bed Code rainbow: All codes fired at once

I have been watching your videos off and on over the last year and I think your videos are great and I am so proud to learn your Canadian! I live in Nova Scotia and over 70,000 people here don't have a family doctor and our hospital has the highest mortality rate in the country. Last week a local story made the CTV Atlantic news in which over a two week period a man was at the ER twice and died as a result of his bowl dieing while he was alive and then he died within days. Anyway we need doctors like you in Canada so please keep doing what your doing and I can't wait to watch your med videos. Subscribed 🤗💜🇨🇦

Hi Dr Siobhan, Thank you for explaining all the Hospital Codes. I'd like to learn about them. You are my best doctor Siobhan

I was visiting my grandma in the ICU and as soon as I stepped out of the elevator onto that floor a code blue was being announced. There were little blue lights going off everywhere and the staff were running in the same direction. As someone who just stepped out of the elevator with no clue what a code blue was , I just stood there confused and slowly walked to my grandmas room 😅 later on I asked a nurse what that was and she explained. I overheard that the patient who the code was called for made it, so yay! Happy ending 😊✨

My Pipi recently passed away because of a surprise anyeurism. When we were waiting for him to get out of emergency surgery, they called Code Omega. I wondered what it was, and now I know it was probably him. I always appreciate what all doctors and nurses do for everyone.

i absolutely love coming back to this video. its just so interestring

First time watching. Loved it!! Subscribed.

Code Neon : hospital is invaded by aliens 👽

I only know these codes from Greys Anatomy 😂

This is very helpful because I’m planning to become a pediatrical surgeon

Thank you for the information on the codes. I once was in the hospital during a brief code white.

Code Yellow: When a patient hides in an inconspicuous place, because he knows the nurse must catch him in order to administer the shot.

Code Satan: When a demon has been summoned in the hospital

she seems like such a lovely person, love your videos

I’ll never forget my first code blue. It was July 4th 2010. My icu patient (I was a new icu nurse) coded. We got him back and I’ll never forget the way it felt. I think about that patient every Fourth of July.

Hello, I am 13 and i love your videos. I hope to someday be a nurse and go to medical school. I love how every time i watch your videos i learn something new. Thank you so much for making these amazing videos!

Code Sweater: the environmental controls have broken down leaving the air conditioning and other factors inoperable. Works for both too hot or too cold.

You are so intelligent and amazing with your job. Your future is unbelievably BRIGHT❤️😊

you are the best at explaining!!!!

she’s so excited about her job i love it!!!

As a diabetic, I would never even consider leaving a hospital AMA. WAAAAY TOO RISKY!

One of your videos Popped up so now I’m just watching all them🥰🥰

After two surgeries both times I’ve had a code blue, thank god for the doctors and every staff that was there

I probably almost had a code white pulled on me. I was going into surgery and they put one of those breathing mask thingys on me and was trying to kick/punch the doctors and I was also screaming “HELP MEEEEeeEe” it felt like they were suffocating me. But luckily they just held my feet and arms down.

Make a code blue video

Code dignity:when someone died and all has to go outside the persons door in a line to respect a family

You are so sweet, I can't imagine someone yelling at you. Very smart nice doc. I hope u don't have any of those bad scary codes.

My aunt had a code blue called about 2 years ago when she gave birth to my cousin. I remember my uncle describing vividly what happened.Thankfully she and my cousin are still with us, happy and healthy. 💞🙏👼

Code pink is for a missing baby from maternity Code grey or BAT is for a stroke. BAT is short for brain attack team Dr. Heavy or manpower is for backup Code E is for elopement. We also have Rapid Response code for someone that is in need of extra nurses and doctors and RT for a medical emergency but not quite a code blue.

Hi siobhan! Can you make a video dedicated to clinical pharmacists in the hospital? It is not often that i come across videos about those people. And since I’m thinking of becoming one, it would be super helpful to see what they do in an hospital in detail. Thank you so much also for being a very well educated doctor!

i kinda want to be a doctor because of these videos, its really cool how organised hospitals actually are

Our Australia standard codes are very different. Red - fire Blue - medical Purple - bomb threat Yellow - internal emergency Black - personal threat Brown - external Orange - evacuation

Code Red activates the emergency blood transfusion protocol in the UK

I live in Tennessee, U.S.A. Last month I was actually in the hospital due to Sepsis and a lodged kidney stone. While my mom and I were still in the E.R. we heard a Code Silver. We asked what that meant, and it means (at least at the hospital I was at) a missing elderly person.

Code Orange - Hazardous Spill. Code Black - Bomb Threat Code Blue - Adult Emergency. Code Silver - Weapons. Code Omega - Non Existing. Code Brown - Non Existing. Code Red - Fire. Code Green - Missing person. Code Aqua - Non Existing. Code White - Pedatric Emergency. Code Grey- Aggressive Person. Code Pink - Missing Baby. Code External/ Code Internal - disaster. California Security Supervisor 😊

Hey! I’m Dani and I’m a senior in high school and I have cerebral palsy. You are honestly so inspirational to me! Through your videos, you have taught me to keep going and never give up despite the challenges of life! Thank you so much, you truly are making a difference!

"now this is a real team *activity*" Head Doctor: Alright doctors, gather round the camp fire! It's time for our Code Blue!" Rest of the doctors and nurses: Yay!

I just found your channel im under 16 an I find this really interesting you gained a new subscriber for sure will be watching more videos

Code Omega is equal to our Code Crimson 🤣

I once was in the hospital and there was a code blue called... it was a childrens hospial

Can you put these codes in the description of your videos so I can check those because I will forget them

you are so genuine

Love to see the code blue more in detail. Thanks

I lived with my aunt, uncle, and cousin for 2 years and we had a code brown. Basically 3 of us has IBS and other gastric problems and only one bathroom so if someone was in the bathroom showering or getting ready or whatever, if a code brown is called you MUST get out within 1 minute. We have even called a code brown ahead of time. We have a group chat with all of us in it and there have been times where one of us will be driving home and text a code brown. I was coming home from class one day and texted “CODE BROWN in 15 minutes” which basically lets everyone know the bathroom must be open because I’m arriving in 15 😂😂😂

My mom has anaphalctic food allergies i had to go to the emergency room with her and i was in the waiting room i heard code blue and it was about her and i almost cried

Love how I know all of these already

I've been in the hospital before with a code blue called on a different floor. Even though it was very quiet on my side, I just knew, at the same time, there was chaos and every member of the staff scrambling to that room. Pretty scary.