Plain Languages Alerts
A missing patient whose whereabout is unknown. Considered missing until located and well-being established.
What is missing person?
Response to family presence during a medical emergency
What is let them stay?
Three main functions on a Zoll. The gray area is for what?
What is no intervention/monitor only
No resuscitative support provided. The physician can specify the advanced care plan that the patient and family has agreed upon
What is Comfort Care only
When is it not okay to have an emergency cart unlocked?
What is during cart checks
Process used during an emergency to effectively communicate information and mobilize the appropriate assistance
What is Plain Language?
A patient or family member can activate this alert if there are concerns related to patient condition or care.
What is Condition Help ("H")
The green area of a ZOLL is used for ____________
What is pacing?
Continue to provide appropriate medical treatments, including but not limited to blood products, enteral feedings, parenteral hydration, antibiotics, and hemodialysis. No resuscitative support.
What is DNR?
Emergency code cart are replaced after calling this department
Missing or abducted infants under the age of one (1) year and children between the ages of one (1) to eighteen (18)
What is Infant Abduction/Child Abduction?
what is called during new onset check pain, increase heart rate or patient restlessness?
What is a rapid response
Two things that are done before you shock a patient
Purple alert bands indicate ____________
DNR code status
How often is the emergency code cart checked
What is daily?
An act or instance of running off secretly or an act or instance of leaving a safe area or safe premises, done by a person with a mental disorder or cognitive impairment
What is an elopement?
Responds to "at risk" patients who are demonstrating signs and/or symptoms of clinical deterioration
What is rapid response team?
the acronym for VOMIT in a medical emergency stands for ____________
V-Vitals
O-Oxygen
M-Monitor
I - IV access
T- Transport
This is the rate of ventilations for an adult with an advanced airway in an emergency
what is 1 breath every 6 seconds
Yellow alert band on patient indicate ______________
High risk for falls
I contain the following information: alert type, event type, location with directions
What is an Announcement of the emergency alert?
A portable electronic device that automatically identifies the life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias and treats
Automated external defibrillator
Zoll Defibrillator defaults to this range of delivery of joules for adults
What is 120-200j?
What is a full code?
Partial code is ordered when only a specific treatment. What (2) types of orders are being provided for the patient.
What is cardiac resuscitation, No respiratory Arrest support?
What is Respiratory Arrest Support, No cardiac resuscitation?