Codes
This is the appropriate action when a current Woman's Hospital patient is clinically declining and needs rapid assessment.
What is a Rapid Response?
Anyone who comes to the assessment center is entitled to a MSE, according to EMTALA. MSE stands for:
What is a Medical Screening Examination?
Call a code at this location where patients with high risk pregnancies go for check ups.
Where is MFM?
Call 911 here, a place with a name similar to the only flying mammal.
Where is the BAT center?
These are located in areas that do not have a crash cart on campus - in case of a medical emergency.
The number of times the code is called overhead.
What is 3?
This code is for individuals under the age of 1 in acute cardio-pulmonary distress.
This federal policy was created to prevent hospitals from transferring Medicaid or uninsured patients to public hospitals without proper evaluation and stabilization.
What is EMTALA?
Call a code here, where employees enter and exit the building.
Where is the SSB?
Call 911 here before yoga.
Where is the Woman's Center for Wellness?
These mobile units located in the Hospital contain life-saving drugs and equipment.
What are crash carts?
This person can be designated as the Code Director in the absence of a physician.
Who are staff members with current ACLS training.
This is where you can find the number to call a Code.
Where is the back of your badge?
If someone has a medical emergency but refuses to be brought to the Assessment Center for evaluation and care, the nurse should complete this document.
What is an occurrence report?
Call a code here, where you can purchase scrubs.
Where is the gift shop?
Call 911 here if in a private practice physicians' office.
Where is the POB?
This is where you would hear Code communication.
Where is overhead page?
Members from Respiratory, Nursing Administration, Pharmacy, Sterile Processing, AICU, Assessment Center, NICU, Call Center, Anesthesia, Quality, and Medical Director of AICU make up this group that reviews code procedures and outcomes.
What is the Code Committee?
This code is appropriate when someone is believed to be in a non-life threatening emergency and assistance is needed.
What is a Code Help?
A patient in active labor may be transferred once stable. The law says this must happen in order for the patient in active labor to be considered stable.
What is delivery of infant and placenta?
Call a Code here, where people leave their cars.
Where is the parking lot?
This on-campus building where babies are delivered is not owned or operated by Woman's Hospital.
What is the Baton Rouge Birth Center?
This is where you would hear a Rapid Response communication.
Where is by phone?
Nurses from these three departments are part of the code team.
What is PACU, AICU, and Assessment Center?
This code alerts staff to an unattended delivery.
What is a Code 1?
These must go with the patient to the receiving hospital upon transfer.
What are medical records?
Call a code here, where patients come for outpatient surgery.
Where is Same Day Surgery?
If a patient is brought to the Assessment Center from a private practice clinic, this action is required.
What is a Medical Screening Examination?
This is the department responsible for maintenance and repair of our AEDs throughout campus.
Where is BioMed?
This person can serve as the code director until the anesthesiologist arrives.
Who are staff-members with up to date ACLS training?