Feasibility of accelerated code team activation with code button triggered smartphone notification

Morris, NA; Couperus, C; Dezman, Z; Rubinson, L; Friedrich, R; Gurmu, S; Lemkin, D

doi:10.1016/j.resuscitation.2023.109752

Cardiac arrest & resuscitation

Feasibility of accelerated code team activation with code button triggered smartphone notification

ResuscitationPublished 25 Feb 2023Feasibility pilot study

Main finding · Time to code team notificationResultMedian difference 78 s

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Authors' conclusion

Implementation of a smartphone-based code button notification system reduced time to code team activation by 78 s.

Study context

Population: In-hospital cardiac arrest events on 7 medicine inpatient units, November 2019 to May 2022
Participants: 35 cardiac arrest events

Comparison: Code button-triggered smartphone notification vs traditional operator-sent overhead page
Outcome: Time from code blue button press to smartphone message receipt vs operator-sent overhead page

Methodological details7 medicine inpatient units

7 medicine inpatient units

Main finding

Time to code team notification

Median difference

78 s

As reported in the abstract

Further findings

Time to adrenaline administration · not significantly different

P = 0.89

Code buttonmedian 240 sIQR 142–300

Overhead pagemedian 148 sIQR 34–367

Survival to discharge

P = 0.67

Code button25.0%

Overhead page17.4%

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Original publication

Feasibility of accelerated code team activation with code button triggered smartphone notification. Resuscitation. Published 25 February 2023. doi:10.1016/j.resuscitation.2023.109752

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