BACKGROUND Cardiac arrests in hospital areas are common, and hospitals have rapid response teams or "blue code teams" to reduce preventable in-hospital deaths. Education about the rapid response team has been provided in all hospitals in Turkey, but true "blue code" activation is rare, and it is abused by medical personnel in practice. This study aimed to determine the cases of wrong blue codes...

Many cardiac arrests in hospitalized patients are preceded by warning signs such as derangements in vital signs [1–3]. Despite advancements in many aspects of health care, in-hospital cardiac arrests continue to have a mortality of approximately 80 % [4]. Efforts to reduce mortality in hospitalized patients therefore include a focus on the deteriorating patient in order to provide earlier treat...

OBJECTIVES To validate an accident and emergency (A&E) based approach to assisting early discharge or avoiding admission to acute hospital beds by means of two separate teams, one in hospital and the other in the community, working closely together at the interface between primary and secondary health care. DESIGN A purpose designed admission avoidance (AA) team was established in the A&E dep...

BACKGROUND The characteristics of in-hospital emergency response systems, survival rates, and variables associated with survival after in-hospital cardiac arrest vary significantly among medical centers worldwide. Aiming to optimize in-hospital emergency response, we performed an analysis of survival after in-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the task profile of our cardiac arrest team...