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code blue

 
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–noun
(often initial capital letters) a medical emergency in which paramedics are dispatched to aid a person undergoing cardiac arrest.
Origin:
1980–85
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code blue  
n.  A medical emergency in which a team of medical personnel work to revive an individual in cardiac arrest.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Main Entry: code blue
Function: noun
often capitalized C&B : a declaration of or a state of medical emergency and call for medical personnel and equipment toattempt to resuscitate a patient especially when in cardiac arrest or respiratory distress or failure Code Blues, doctors had brought her back to life more than once—Bill Bryan> also : the attempt to resuscitate the patient
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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