Anyone still up?

[awick14]

It's only 10pm here and work today was a gong show!

The following link will be deleted when I wake up.

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Basically- work yesterday was the worst/biggest motor vehicle accident/ multi patient incident I have ever seen.

[melsamoony]

I am still up. What that seems crazy. I hope everyone is OK.

[awick14]

Aug 29, 2014 1:50:16 GMT -5 melsamoony said:

I am still up. What that seems crazy. I hope everyone is OK.

As far as I know everyone is ok, but there are a few that are in critical condition. We will hopefully hear more tomorrow.

I'm off to bed. Goodnight.

[melsamoony]

Good night! Sleep tight!

[travelbug]

Oh my goodness, that's awful!

[bk1]

I can't even imagine. 

[estrellita]

How scary! Hope everyone is ok and you get some sleep!

[pooh8402]

Holy shit! What a night! My prayers are with the victims and the medical staff.

[awick14]

pooh8402- I have never heard of a code orange before yesterday. Does your hospital have this protocol as well.

*Code orange is when the hospital staff is on forced OT (if their shift ends in the middle of it) and they try and divert any patients with a cold etc to go to a walk in clinic (our version of urgent care) instead of using the hospital.

[pooh8402]

we do. or similar, we have a code yellow for internal/external/mass casualty. (the states don't have any universal code colors. the hospitals pick their own. except for blue--respiratory/cardiac arrest and pink--infant/child abduction, they can be different colors). my hospital had to use it once since I started working there because of a shooter locally that shot several people (can't remember if anyone died, don't think so). when Bonfire fell on A&M's campus in 1999, the hospitals in the cities around A&M enacted their mass casualty systems, multiple doctors, nurses, techs, EMTs, etc were called in to help and the people already there had to stay. I used to work with several people who worked that night, they said it was one of the most horrific nights they'd ever seen/had.

[awick14]

pooh8402- both hospitals involved called a code orange and they called in 30+ nurses/clerks/security/docs/diagnostic imagining/lab techs

They upstaffed 2 ground ambulances an 3 flight ambulances. It was crazy.

[pooh8402]

that is crazy. I can't even imagine. I'm glad you got some sleep. are you working again tonight?

(oh and because I was curious, I checked my badge to see what a code orange at my hospital is. it's radiation. oh, okay.)

[awick14]

I booked the long weekend off to go camping. So I don't work now until Tuesday.

The codes that I know for our hospital are;
Blue- resp/cardiac
Pink- stolen baby/child
White- security needed/psych
Orange- multi casualty

[pooh8402]

woooooooo! enjoy the time off! you deserve it!