2008 March 29, Tom Sigafoos, Code Blue, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 118:
“What's a Code Blue?” “It's a signal for the resuscitation team to come running. It usually means that somebody's going to die unless they get help.” “Okay. Go on.” “Oh, this is awful... Anyway, there were two patients down in Intensive[…]
202212, Luanne Linnard-Palmer, Pediatric Nursing Care: A Concept-Based Approach, Jones & Bartlett Learning, →ISBN, page 551:
The goals are to rapidly respond to any concern about the safety and status of a child, to escalate the con- cern to those who have the advanced skills needed to as- sess and respond to the child's condition, and to prevent a code blue.
(Can we date this quote?), California (State)., California. Court of Appeal (2nd Appellate District). Records and Briefs: B065928, Appellant's Opening, page 17:
you refused to respond to a Code Blue on the grounds you were talking on the telephone to your grandmother who was ill . " [ R.T. 269 ] . A Code Blue Blue is an emergency situation in which a patient's heart has stopped beating , and it[…]
2021 November 2, William F. Lawless, Ranjeev Mittu, Donald A. Sofge, Thomas Shortell, Thomas A. McDermott, Systems Engineering and Artificial Intelligence, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 71:
... a metric was developed to evaluate the performance of code-blue teams; second, a communications model was developed that captured a team's and the leaders' communications during a code-blue resuscitation; and third,[…]
1999, Keith D. Wilson, David W. Page, Code Blue: A Writer's Guide to Hospitals, →ISBN:
When a CODE BLUE is announced , every doctor and nurse in the hospital does not take off in a panic to assist . This would lead to chaos for the rest of the hospital , as well as in the patient's room . There would be far too many[…]
2008, Debora Slee, Vergil Slee, Joachim Schmidt, Slee's Health Care Terms, Jones & Bartlett Learning, →ISBN, page 108:
show code A situation where a code blue (call for resuscitation) is made on a patient whose heart has stopped, but where the healthcare providers really do not believe that resuscitation is appropriate. The "code" is thus for "show," because authentic resuscitation efforts are not made.
