Abstract
Aim: This study was prepared to analyze the “Code Blue” application and results in Hitit University Erol Olçok Training and Research Hospital.
 Material and Method: Whole of the code blue calls issued in our hospital in 2019 were retrospectively examined and evaluated within the framework of the necessary legal permissions. In this context, arrival time of the code blue team at the scene, CPR performance, duration, results of application and demographic information of patient, place, date and time data were collected. The obtained data were analyzed using the SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Science).
 Results: Between 01.01.2019 and 31.12.2019 a total of 748 code blue notifications were evaluated. The average time for the blue code team to reach the patient was 2.06 minutes. Code blue call was made mostly in intensive care units, by nurses and in January. Patients who underwent code blue intervention 55.89% of them were male and 44.11% were female. Code blue calls were requested the most was the range of 61-80 ages. The oldest patient who received CPR was 105 years old, and the youngest was 2 years old. Besides, code blue call reason is most respiratory+cardiac arrest (243), cardiac arrest (199) and respiratory arrest (109). The results of the whole code blue interventions in 2019, it was figured out that 401 of the patients were dead, 135 of them were taken into intensive care, 173 of them were monitored in the service, 25 people were transferred to the emergency, 12 calls were wrong calls and 2 calls for exercise.
 Conclusion: The internationally determined intervention period for the patient to not lose his vital functions to survive is 2 -5 minutes. As a result, code blue application in our hospital has been successfully implemented in accordance with the standards, with effective and rapid intervention.
Highlights
Today much progress has been made in terms of patients, patient rights and quality of care all over the world.For this purpose, new regulations and rules are being implemented by different countries
The youngest age at which CPR was applied in the code blue call was a 2 years old baby boy and the oldest age was a 105 years old female
Another remarkable results of the studies are that the chance of survival and the rate of discharge of the patients increase with the early defibration of the code blue team [5,6,7,8,9]
Summary
Today much progress has been made in terms of patients, patient rights and quality of care all over the world. For this purpose, new regulations and rules are being implemented by different countries. Many countries have different standards and practices, “code blue” which indicates cardiac or respiratory arrest is used as a common medical emergency code throughout the world. Code blue was used for the first time in the USA. Code blue applications started to be implemented for the first time in 2008 within the scope of health transformation with service quality standards.
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