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Originally Posted by Superfraggle
Code Gray/Grey
- A combative person with no weapon under HASC suggestions.
- A security emergency (New Jersey Hospital Association).
- In the Calgary Health Region a Code Grey denotes an air quality issue, or need to enact an air exclusion plan (i.e. shutting off external air circulation, closing windows and doors).
- Severe Weather (Cook Children's Medical Center, Fort Worth, TX)
- Emergency team response for inpatient stroke.
- Air Exclusion (Ontario)
- Unruly Patient/Visitor (Tampa General Hospital)
- Patient in violent (psychotic) episode needing restraint/sedative medication
from http://dictionary.sensagent.com/code+blue/en-en/
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The codes changed a short time back though, and I think they were also changed when we became Alberta Health Services rather than the Calgary Health Region.