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Recognition & Response 2020 Annual Required Education

Code Rescue

Code Rescue is the term utilized across the
system to alert a specially trained team to
respond to a patient who is in distress and
requires immediate intervention.
Code Rescue will be initiated for any
patient for any of the following criteria:

Respiratory
• Rate < 8 or > 30
• New onset difficulty breathing/threatened
airway
• New pulse oximeter reading less than 90% for
more than 5 minutes (unless patient known to
have chronic hypoxemia on previously
prescribed oxygen)
Cardiac
• New onset chest pain
• < 40 or > 140 with new symptoms or sustained
• Arrhythmia / heart rate > 180

Blood Pressure
• Systolic < 90 or > 180 and symptomatic
• Diastolic > 100 and symptomatic