Code Yellow: Missing Patient Emergency

A guide to automating your response to a Code Yellow situation to save time and streamline efforts.

Challenge

Hospitals' code yellow incidents require an effective and organized search. They are best conducted as soon as possible when a patient is discovered to be missing. Failure to find that patient quickly can put patients and staff at risk.

Information on the missing patient must be distributed as quickly as possible to allow for easy identification. Staff must be able to reply to alerts to notify administration that the emergency has ended.

Solution

SimplyDigital offers the Code Yellow use case. This use case is a digitized process designed to ensure all staff are aware of a missing patient. Using this solution, hospitals can launch alerts to all staff to inform them to be on the look out.

The Code Yellow use case is designed to help with the management of missing patient emergency responses. This solution allows administrators to monitor searches and get reports from staff live. By leveraging alerts, powerful response tracking, and a centralized emergency dashboard they can streamline and centralize the entire code yellow process.

Using an automated code yellow response ensures that the incident is resolved faster, improving patient safety. Quickly communicating the emergency reduces the possibility of a missing patient going unnoticed.

Steps to Success

  1. Utilize alerts, surveys, and response tracking to identify areas a missing patient could be. The search for them can be easily coordinated and the search progress tracked.
  2. As staff search the immediate area, they can respond to alerts to confirm that they have searched their assigned area, as well as indicate if they have discovered the missing patient.​
  3. During an active code yellow incident, administrators can monitor responses from staff as they come in. When searches of a given area are complete, staff can be redirected as needed to other key search locations.​

Best Outcome

Use case benefit
Save precious time in an emergency where every second can be important. This becomes even more important when the missing person is a child, especially if a child abduction could occur.
Use case benefit
When the code yellow emergency is over, communicate the location of missing patients quickly to allow staff to return to normal.
Use case benefit
Further expand your ability to respond to emergency codes with medical emergency use cases. These use cases include code orange for external disasters, code blue for cardiac arrests, and code purple for hostage situations.
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