| When you work in a hospital it is important to know what the different colors stand for | Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine |
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| Michael Marks Davis; Andrew Robert Warner 1918 | Most often caused by cardiac arrest |
James Edward McClellan and Harold Dorn, Science and Technology in World History: An Introduction Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006 , p.
29| While there are current plans to eventually have all hospitals in the country using the same color system it has not been implemented as of yet | "The British National Health Service 1948—2008: A Review of the Historiography," Social History of Medicine, December 2008, Vol |
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| Gordon, Benjamin, Medieval and Renaissance Medicine, New York: Philosophical Library, 1959 , 313 | The first is often to indicate a fire has broken out somewhere in the building |
This is to let people know that there is a problem with one or more of the persons limbs.
| American Catholic Hospitals: A Century of Changing Markets and Missions Rutgers University Press, 2011 | The Hospital in Islam, [Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Islamic Science, An Illustrated Study], World of Islam Festival Pub |
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| The Medieval Hospital and Medical Practice | Code Orange is used when a patients health is rapidly declining |
Since nurses and doctors work in shifts it is important that there is a system to alert all workers of the patients stability.
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