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When doctors' patients are undergoing such emergencies and a code is called for them, their beepers will begin immediately beeping urgently to alert them of the danger. |
When doctors' patients are undergoing such emergencies and a code is called for them, their beepers will begin immediately beeping urgently to alert them of the danger. |
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Revision as of 23:15, 22 February 2008
A medical code is a shorthand abbreviation to describe a patient, usually during a time of severe medical emergency.
Often, doctors will ask for medical assistance in attending to a patient while in an emergency by "calling a code".
When doctors' patients are undergoing such emergencies and a code is called for them, their beepers will begin immediately beeping urgently to alert them of the danger.