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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.
Nuclear football. The nuclear football (also known as the atomic football, the Presidential Emergency Satchel, [1] the satchel, the button, the Black Bag, the black box, or just the football) is a briefcase, the contents of which are to be used by the president of the United States to communicate and authorize a nuclear attack while away from ...
Freedom House Ambulance Service. Freedom House Ambulance Service was the first emergency medical service in the United States to be staffed by paramedics with medical training beyond basic first aid. [1] [2] Founded in 1967 to serve the predominantly black Hill District of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, it was staffed entirely by African Americans.
Code Black. (TV series) Code Black is an American medical drama television series created by Michael Seitzman that premiered on CBS on September 30, 2015. [1] It takes place in an overcrowded and understaffed emergency room in Los Angeles, California, and is based on a documentary by Ryan McGarry.
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Code Black is a documentary directed by Ryan McGarry in 2013 that follows the lives of young physicians in the Los Angeles General Medical Center Emergency department. These young residents stand up for medicine in a broken-health care system. This film enters one of America's busiest emergency rooms where new challenges arise as the young ...
Army Medical Department. The Army Medical Department of the U.S. Army ( AMEDD ), formerly known as the Army Medical Service (AMS), encompasses the Army's six medical Special Branches (or "Corps"). It was established as the "Army Hospital" in July 1775 to coordinate the medical care required by the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.
The Star of Life is a symbol used to identify emergency medical services. It features a blue six-pointed star, outlined by a white border. The middle contains a Rod of Asclepius – an ancient symbol of medicine. The Star of Life can be found on ambulances, medical personnel uniforms, and other objects associated with emergency medicine or ...