‘Code yellow’ at Mount Sinai Hospital on Chicago’s West

“What is your name? Can you tell me your name?” The first query that individuals are requested as they're rushed into the emergency room at Mount Sinai Hospital is a ploy. The nurses and medical doctors hovering alongside the rolling gurney aren’t actually desirous about that. Not now, with life doubtlessly hanging within the steadiness. Besides, they in all probability might get the individual’s identify from a pockets within the bloody garments being stripped or reduce away. What they actually need is to immediate the affected person to talk, or attempt to. If they will, “That tells us they’re breathing fine and their lung sounds are clear because they can talk to us,” stated Raquel

Sinclair TV station drops ‘Code Red’ climate alerts after

The TV station whose “Code Red” climate alert drew an on-air reproach from its meteorologist final week says it's softening the identify and growing stricter tips. WICS-TV posted a video to its web site Monday evening by which common supervisor Rick Lipps responds to meteorologist Joe Crain’s on-air feedback June 5. Crain mentioned throughout a morning forecast for a “Code Red” climate alert that he understands viewers’ complaints concerning the model. Critics say the moniker is overused, unnecessarily alarms folks, harms companies and marks your complete viewing space with the alert no matter how remoted the storm risk. Lipps says he can’t touch upon Crain’s standing. But he says managers will change the community-minded storm