Medical Dictionary
code blue
noun, often capitalized C&B
Medical Definition of CODE BLUE
: a declaration of or a state of medical emergency and call for medical personnel and equipment to attempt to resuscitate a patient especially when in cardiac arrest or respiratory distress or failure <summoned by emergency Code Blues, doctors had brought her back to life more than once—Bill Bryan>; also : the attempt to resuscitate the patient
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