I remember one time during Spanish class I felt one of my seizures coming so I notified my teacher and she was keeping an eye on me checking in on me every few minutes as it take a while, usually 30 minutes before it starts. The last thing that I remembered was learning about the Spanish word vosostros and then everything went black. It’s didn’t even feel like 10 seconds and I woke up to atleast 12 people standing around me in scrubs. Apparently I had my seizure and my teacher did the proper protocol, and when I didn’t wake up and I started seizing a second time she called an ambulance for me and had the school nurse come until the paramedics got their. Apparently I had seized atleast four times, and they had put me on oxygen and had a heart monitor on me incase I stoped breathing or my heart rate slowed down. And was about to get the life support machine ready for me. I was ok. I got to go home the next day. She is still my favorite teacher and I don’t know what would have happened if I was in a different class.

"If you happen to hold a baby, you might get tackled. Even if it's yours. We can't take any chances." Haha 😂

Two years ago, my mother went to the hospital due to a widowmaker heart attack. It wasn't her first heart attack, but it was certainly the worst. They decided she needed open heart surgery, and so that Thursday that's exactly what they did. During the surgery there was a complication where a hole was made in her heart. They tried to close it but every time her heart beat it would rip open the sutures. We were told that if her blood pressure dropped or raised by even a little, the odds were that she wasn't going to make it. Even as the lady telling us finished saying that, we heard, "Code: blue ICU bed 2" come over the intercom. That was my mom's bed. We heard those words an additional two times that night. The surgeon in charge as well as everyone else involved performed things they didn't even think they were capable of, in the surgeon's own words. My mom is alive today.

In the initial invasion of Afghanistan there was a soldier that got shot by an rpg and surprisingly enough it went through his vehicle and didn’t explode. It just lodged itself into the body of a soldier. Normally this would have simply lead to the soldier dying because it’s too dangerous to operate with a live explosive in their body. However, a doctor evacuated everyone from the area and he along side an explosive expert (EOD) worked together to save that soldier’s life! Now that soldier definitely never walked again and will live with aid of a wheel chair forever but he made it! They took that rpg and set it off on purpose in a safe way far from the base.

“not by me of course, *that’s gonna cost ya extra* 😏” IM DYING I-

I’m wheezing “ your boob jobs just gonna have to wait double A” 😂

I was in the ER with my daughter, who developed kidney stones at 14, when I heard "Code Silver" announced. I had no idea what it was and there was no nurse nearby to ask, but I overheard a woman in the cubicle next to ours asking her companion what that meant. After a few awkward coughs, the person stammered out that it means there's an elderly person lost in the hospital. (Sounded like the person knew, but didn't want to frighten the woman) A little while later, a nurse came in to check my daughter's IV; I asked her about the code, and she said that there was an armed person on the loose inside the hospital earlier, but he had been apprehended and taken away. (The next day, I read that the man had come into ER with a loaded handgun and demanded to see someone in Intensive Care, where he wasn't allowed because he wasn't patient's family.)

I was the trouble maker who went Code Blue last week... Woke up to 30 people in my room all knowing exactly what to do... I'm alive because of them... Thanks for all you med professionals do!

He’s 100% right about the code gray. I’ve been the person responsible for a few code grays back in my drinking/drugging days. And yea they WILL tackle you, put you in restraints and even gag you if necessary. 🥴🥴🥴

My daughter is always saying "Tips from the ER" randomly at home 😂😂

So I used to do hospital security and in my hospital, it was code white instead of code grey. I was in a smaller hospital so I was often solo on take downs. Here's my advice: The moment that security begins to restrain you, comply. It will hurt you less and make for much less paperwork later. If security has to sit with you, we don't wanna be there any more than you do, so chat us up and utilize us to work through your problems. And for the love of god, do not piss off the small redhead nurse, she will fuck you up before security can get there.

It's interesting to see the difference in codes in different areas. In hospitals I've worked at a Code Pink is used for fetus in distress/women's obstetrical emergency, a code white is used for an aggressive/violent person, and a code grey is shelter in place. But a code red, black, and blue seem to be the same everywhere.

“And your gonna need a spanking. Not by me of course, that’s gonna cost a little extra” 🤣

I love the way he curses my ass outta the coffin to my nearest ER

I spent 170 days in a hospital back in 2020 and heard most of these a LOT. I also heard walking on sunshine on loop because it's the song that the hospital played anytime a covid patient was discharged.

So fun that you ended with third degree burns as that's my only ER visit - almost 2 yrs ago now. I had this long flouncy skirt on and it caught fire, because I was standing too close to the fireplace, back turned. I had a bunch of second degree burns on butt, hips, ankles, feet, hands. But the real fun came with the third degree burns all up the back of my right thigh. Luckily the ambulance was able to take me all the way into Philly to a fantastic hospital with a burn center. A whole team of doctors and nurses surrounded me in the ER. I was very impressed with the team approach. There had to be 8 or 9 people checking me out. I thought I would just get bandaged up and sent home, but they admitted me and said the burn surgeon had to evaluate me on Monday (it was saturday when I arrived). So I was all like, ok, fine, I am sure I won't need surgery but I can stay to meet the doc. So Monday comes around and he checks my burns and says, yup, you're getting skin grafts. So that surgery was done on Wednesday, with the strips of the skin for grafts harvested from the front of my right thigh. I was sent home the following Monday. To be honest, it was all pretty traumatic. I put up a video of my 10 days in the hospital and my frugalistas contributed a lot of money towards my hospital bill since I didn't have insurance, which was just amazing. I think when I hit the 2 year mark in Feb, I'll put up an update video and show the pictures again of the original injury and what it looked like after surgery and what the scars look like now. I was at Thomas Jefferson Hospital and every single person involved in my care (except 1 overnight nurse who I thought was going to murder me) was outstanding.

Can EVERYBODY just never say it’s quiet in a place of business?

Can’t medical students just watch all of these videos instead of watching long boring videos to explain it. He does it so well while keeping it a lil funny 😄

I was the one who coded once. Not even in a hospital. I was in an infusion clinic for my first chemo treatment. The nurse had just hooked up my IV not 2 minutes beforehand. I turned red and started having trouble breathing. The doctor that was running the clinic happened to walk by my chair and he ordered the nurses to stop the infusion and give me a shot of epinephrine straight into my IV tube while he went to his office just a few feet away and called a code blue. My oncologist came running into the clinic so fast his coattails were straight out behind him and, on seeing how bad the reaction was, immediately turned stark white and started thinking of different medications to try so I could be treated safely. I think I scared the hell out of everyone there and I KNOW I scared the hell out of myself that day. I’ll never forget that feeling of gasping for breath and not being able to get any air into my lungs. I’ve also been the rescuer in a code blue situation, also not in a hospital. This one was in a school cafeteria. A boy in the class I was with had overstuffed his mouth with food during lunch and part of it got stuck in his throat. He started turning blue while I was getting another student off the stage. The other aide called out to me about him and I gladly traded students with her because she had frozen in her tracks and wasn’t going to be of any help any other way. I grabbed the boy out of his seat, stood him up and started the heimlich on him. Our height difference was too great for that to work though. On noticing that, I bent him over my arm and started giving back blows. He coughed up the food and started hyperventilating to make up for the lack of air and his blue skin slowly started turning back to pink. He was 6 at the time. Now he’s 12 and doing good as far as I know.

its always weird to see colors linked to different things. The hospital i was in: blue is cardiac arrest in adult, pink is in child., yellow was for a patient dissapearing. White is for violent person, red is fire, black is a suspect package, orange is for an outside sinister. Brown is for internal hazardous material spill, grey is for outside hazardous material spill or toxic leak (gas) , green is evacuation. I can imagine how confusing it could be to go from an hospital to the other who each have their own color codes....

Finally the compilation of codes and burns, video downloaded and favourited, just so I can refer 😉

The hospital during a tornado:Some of you may die but that's a sacrifice im willing to make

Where I'm from, Toronto, Ontario, code pink means Paediatric Cardiac Arrest. I remember being inside NICU at Mt. Sinai Hospital for almost 3 months and listening to this code called out so often and then watching them wheel away a dead baby. It's sad, very sad, especially when you then encounter the parents in the hallway just seeing the mother balling her eyes out.

once I was in the ER to see my niece and there was a code silver I didn't know what it meant but I saw security guards chasing a man holding a baseball bat so as he tried to go past I smacked him full strength with my handbag and now I'm very glad I did 😂

I had the pleasure of witnessing a code blue when visiting my grandpa. He lived

26 years in EMS/Fire, 18 years as a paramedic, 7 years as a paramedic in the ER in Tampa, this guy understands me!!!!

My mom volunteered the night shift at the ER when she was in college. She has some stories, but the craziest one I heard was the guy that mistook gasoline for fire starter, and walked into the ER from the ambulance entrance completely covered from burns

EMTs also don’t use the “q word” unless we TRULY want to be secured to a backboard and strung up somewhere awkward!

code blue: patient not breathing code red: fire code black: bomb in the building code pink: baby missing code silver: someone has a weapon code brown: severe weather warning code grey: abusive person on the loose your welcome!

9:06 at a certain distance from a nuclear explosion you'll get third degree burns over your entire body killings your nerves so fast that its completely painless

My dad raced cars and got into a horrible accident about halfway through his racing career. He had horrid 3rd degree burns and they had to relieve pressure by cutting the skin as well. Until he passed away years later, he had almost no working nerve endings on over 3/4s of his body. Yet he still got back on that track the moment he was able to lol

I was signing a patient in one day when a Code Blue happened, and it was labour and delivery if I remember correctly (either that or maternity). Either way... the patient's little kid asked what it meant and the parent tried to explain. Within a minute the code was cancelled. The kid was very hopeful while the parent and other close adults and I exchanged looks. We never found out if it was a good or bad cancellation. Definitely a different kind of interaction that day. Made us all pause.

At this point, if a code is called I’m just going to think if it’s this or a pandemic that will take me out

0:00 Code Blue 0:44 Code Red 1:30 Code Black 2:14 Code Pink 3:04 Code Silver 3:51 Code Brown 4:50 Code Gray 5:41 The "Q" Word 6:25 1st Degree Burn 7:18 2nd Degree Burn 8:17 3rd Degree Burn

I worked at an inpatient psychiatric hospital which was part of a large Level-1 Trauma hospital. Most of these same codes were used across all our departments, and we also used Code Green to indicate a psych. patient had gone missing and the emergency response team should be activated to start looking for them. (It's common for psych patients to try to run away)

I have a lot more but I wish you can make an episode out of what I have. But here are some of my favorite codes for the patient's chart: UNIVAC: unusually nasty infection vultures are circling ECU: Eternal Care Unit as in he's dead he's gone to the ECU UBI: unexplained beer injury Coffin Dodger: someone we thought was going to die but didn't CTD: circling the drain ( I think you can figure this out) AGA: acute gravity attack (fell over) Shotgunning: ordering lots of tests hoping one will identify what's wrong Have a good day Mfkr!!!

It's interesting how codes colours changes around the world. Where I live, "code red" means "lungs/heart doesn't work anymore" aka american "code blue"

As a healthcare worker in an ER the q word is so true!!! I love this guy. Finally the things we think someone is saying!!!

Although the scenario for 3rd degree burns was amusing, my brother and a family friend suffered 2nd and 3rd degree burns to their faces and hands when the safety valve on the propane heater they were using while hunting in the Colorado mountains failed to close when the pilot light went out. All the propane leaked into the tent, they did not smell it, and when they went to light the lantern, the gas ignited. Unfortunately they did not have "cool water" for the burns, they did however have over a foot of new snow. It took several hours of driving to reach medical help. Thanks to the wonderful medical staff, neither of them have noticeable facial scars, and the ones on my brother's hands are only evident if you know what happened.

I’m in the uk and the pull to the right for code blue threw me for a minute. I was like, why would you pull into oncoming traffic?! Hehe. Love how different countries do things differently 😊

Ah yes silver, the shinner version of gray

the fact that there is a compilation to codes and burns is elite

In regards to butter on a burn my Baba told me that in the old days before running water or electricity on the farm one of the few cool/cold items was butter. So while still wrapped it would be used as an ice pack. She had some choice words for anyone who “treated their body like a piece of toast” (her words)

I work in emergency veterinary medicine. The last time someone said the “quite” we had 5 emergencies come in. 2 dogs hit by the same train, a dog having seizures in the lobby, a strangulation victim, a cat and a dog who had trouble breathing. We do not say that word. EVER!!

Your code red response is so true. I am frequently at OSU medical center. The fire alarm goes off, everyone just stands there.

I've been in the hospital for the following codes: Code Red, Code Blue, Code Orange (external disaster) & Code Black (bomb threat). All but the code red were during the same stay. Other codes that don't match the vide: Code Pink ( Pediatric Cardiac Arrest), Code Grey (Loss of services), Code White (missing patient), Code Amber (Missing Infant ̸ Child), Code Brown (Hazardous Spill). Note - these are the standard codes for Ontario, Canada

Hurley hospital in Flint, Michigan. I heard all of those except the bomb one. Went thru a tornado while nursing my 4th baby in the maternity wing. Experienced a family fight in the next room the day after I had my third child. Hearing the loudspeaker announce a GSW is a normal everyday occurrence. One night there were 3 within an hour! The e.r. Is filled with sick people, some looking for a fix, some needing mental help, and others needing a warm place to sit during a snowstorm. And yet it’s still the best and most capable hospital in Flint. Take care and stay safe.

My sides hurt from laughing, you are wayyy too funny and so acurate lol 😂 More please!!

When you hear CODE BLUE.... *RUN* ! ! ! 🏃🏼‍♀️💨

I love how he can make serious topics funny and still explain 😊

Many years ago, when I did volunteer work at the major hospital in town as a teen "Rose Girl", there was a Code, um, I think it was "Code Yellow" - someone had escaped from the locked psych ward! Code Blue definitely meant "hug the walls in the halls, because there's going to be people running."

Ah, God, nostalgia! I used to work in the ER, and boy, I miss it. These videos remind me how on-my-toes I had to be. Life is so random and so are the people you encounter. It was an experience, to say the least. You're awesome, sir, stay you!

I'm a St John Ambulance 1st aider (UK) and for burns, I am taught to run them under COOL water for 20 mins+ and then loosely wrap in cycling film. Anything that is partial thickness or full thickness (blistered and/or goes through to the other side) needs to be seen, anything that covers more than 5% of your body (5 hands) needs to be seen, anything that wraps round a limb needs to be seen, anything that it on your extremities (hands and feet) needs to be seen and anything on your head and in the surrounding area needs to be seen. ALSO FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DONT PUT BURN GEL OR ANYTHING ON IT OR IT'LL JUST MAKE OUR JOB HARDER AND IT DOES No GOOD!

I understand that different hospitals have different meanings, but I think one Code is pretty universal: Code Adam, missing baby. It’s also used in many other venues, for their same situation.

I worked at a hospital close enough to a nuclear power plant that we had an additional Code Orange that we drilled for: how to respond to an accident/event involving radiation exposure. Separately, a different hospital's Code Brown was always announced along with a Nurse Station, example "Code Brown, 4 North wing" it meant there was an open box of chocolates, come share.

Love the videos!! My Mom is a retired nurse; she's worked in the ER, and other areas of the hospital for MANY years; when she chose to work as a Private Duty Nurse, she would share hospital stories - they were wild!! Thank you for the laughter. 🤣🤣🤣

I have been the reason for code grey in the er. Vehicle accident and was still in/out of responsiveness. Most of the time I have no clue where I was and panicked. Finally coming too and realizing I am "tied" to the bed was a shocker. I definitely felt like an ass.

I love the reference he made about hiding your kids, wife, and husband when he was talking about code silver lmfao

About code blue, for some reason, I got curious about that one specifically. I couldn't help but wonder whether or not it's really because people turn blueish when they die. Apparently, in 1962 Hughes W. Day, M.D. originates the concept of an acute coronary care unit for heart patients and establishes the first such unit in the world at Bethany Medical Center. Dr. Day and his colleagues also developed the cardiac "crash cart" and the term "code blue." The unit's success depended on the use of a highly trained physician-coronary nurse team to effectively lower the mortality rate from acute transmural myocardial infarction. (from Kansas University Medical Center website)

there was a code pink while i was at a doctor's appointment that happened to be in a hospital. at a certain point they stopped repeating it, and my doc said the little ankle monitors the newborns wear are extra sensitive so sometimes they have false alarms. so yeah, code pink sometimes means missing baby, but sometimes they just bumped a baby's monitor or one got too close to the door

As someone who works in an emergency room, I can rest assure you will deck you for saying the Q word

lol I've been called a mother flipper by this guy so much it's funny

My year old baby went into code blue due to severe FPIES. Thanks to the drs and nurses that rushed in. He's well and in my arms now ❤️

As someone whose been sent to the ER multiple times, these things usually absolutely terrified me. But now watching these it makes me laugh about it instead, it’s hilarious

I absolutely love his facial expressions. And the way he says mother "F"ers Hahaha scratch that I'm rewatching this one had me giggling.

3rd degree burn scenario (heroin, candles, fire) happened in the apartment next to mine about 25 years ago. I have a feeling this is common.

Me, an ER registrar who has experienced almost all of these: *quiet crying*

I was called, no wait, they sent an officer to my house on a Sunday to handle a code gray... I was like seriously, the hospital has drugs you have a stick, tazer and a gun but you're going to come get me... It was handled with no violence and the gentalman became quite compliant after my arrival. I'm not a doctor, security for the hospital or an officer, just a guy with a certain skill set that served and lends a hand when and where needed.

I find it interesting how some hospitals have different codes for things. Code blue and red are often the same though. My mom worked as a nurse for years and code brown did actually mean a mess to clean up at her hospital. However this difference does kind of make sense as the place we live doesn't have tornadoes or huge storms almost at all (I think there are only 2 recorded tornadoes in this area since it was settled and neither of them were fatal. We live in Utah)

Im starting my rotations for 3rd year of med school next week and this was actually very informative, I’m never forgetting these code colors now

The “Q” word! I’m dying here! 😂😂😂😂 Fear sets in when it’s uttered!! Add the full moon and …. Ugh! I don’t even wanna think about it!

Best thing to remember about burn units: there is always a burn unit at a Level 1 Trauma Center. At other hospitals with lower levels of trauma units, they are not as prevalent.

"Evacuate yo aSsSs" idk but this sent me

At our hospital, code gray is code green. We also call a 'rapid response' overhead when its not a full code blue. All of these are accurate haha. - sincerely a hospital security guard

Just days after giving birth NC experienced a massive ice storm, we thankfully had warning but the nurses were dong everything to make sure me and the twins were well enough to send home before the storm hit cause they were locking the hospital down for a code brown shelter in place. Thankfully we just made the deadline and got to go home. The Q word, I actually made a joke about that when I was in the ER with my daughter. It was busy as fucking hell in there like insane levels of busy. It was also the day before a full moon and as she was being triaged I asked her 'okay so who uttered the dreaded Q word before the full moon?"

"You probably won't have nerve endings left to feel the pain" Talk about cold comfort.

My mom worked in the ER and said the Q word once and she said everyone looked at her with a certain look and then tons of people showed up. I can safely say she never said it again.

Thanks for making this video! I’m a huge fan of your channel because while I’m working on a story with quite a bit of medical scenes, you make learning about correct medical things fun!!

Having to run 3 crash carts from the basement to the 10th floor back to back had me respecting you all so much more.

I've had code silvers with swords. More than once. Fun times!

He's working really hard and overtime. He's lost just a little weight and hey, aren't your eyebrows a little darker? And about that spanking? Well, I got a raise today. :)

I finally understand why your voice is very charismatic to my ears, you’re spongebob who went through puberty. Grew up with spongebob. this is a compliment, btw. Keep it up! 👌🏻

dude i am so happy i found your channel. you crack me up. i worked ER for 4 years and everything you do is spot on!

As a retired nurse, I was never aware of so many codes, and I worked in a hospital! However, I can imagine these codes would be needed and used more in an ER ! 😮

You are the most entertaining and informative person by far on any platform lately

They had a code silver, code blue, and all available staff to the trauma room codes last time I was at the ED. I was wondering what code silver meant. I went outside the hospital to call my ride and tried to come back in when they discharged me. The hospital police wouldn't let me back in to wait for my ride even though it was 90 degrees outside so I walked around to the front of the hospital and went inside to have lunch in the dining hall. Most satisfying thing I've ever done.

I never saw a doc or nurse this cherish and curses his ass off on everything☺️

Need to say that you are the one person who makes MFer hysterically funny.

I’ve coded blue before. Luckily I was able to come back quickly. I was told that I coded twice. All I remember was waking up and had like 10 people in my room and the crash chart in the room. I was in my mid 20s, when this all happened. My ex wife then wife is telling my daughter and others that if was because I was dehydrated and my organs started shutting down. I have family history of heart problems and I was just diagnosed with POTS, I’m in my late 30s now. Good old days. 😂

My boyfriends mom got a horrid second degree burn on her foot and up her leg and her first choice was toothpaste. He yelled at her after I told him it would hurt her skin more. She even said the doctors were wrong and that their Asian home remedies were what’s going to help it. Let’s just say she had an unhealed burn for 5 months before it started to scar. She’s very stubborn but we love her lol.

I truly enjoy all your videos. So many memories flood back. Miss it at times.

Wow, I didn't expect hospital codes to vary like this! Code brown = biohazardous spill (yes, including human waste in unexpected places), code white = violent person, purple = hostage situation or active shooter, grey = shelter-in-place/air exclusion, green is for evacuation, orange for mass casualties incoming. Yellow is for missing person. At least blue, red, and black are the same I guess 🤷

Steven, you are so damned funny! I found your channel yesterday and I can't stop watching!

This is everything I needed! He’s hilarious

Personal experience- Second child and his security ban was too loose. Lock down of the floor and a nurse ran in my room looking for my child. I was feeding him at the time and she called off the locked down and tighten the ban around his leg. A huge relief off her shoulders and the other nurses. Quick response and excellent timing. ❤

Now THIS is how ya teach stuff! Love this! Thank you for the education and entertainment!

love your videos!! keep up the good work!

My dad's sleep apnea was so bad that when he went into the hospital for a heart attack he triggered a code blues several times in the night. (He was fine)

I just found you last night. My stomach hurts from your jokes from laughing so hard. And education I wish school was this fun.

Yep, I can attest first hand what happens when your heart stops working. Thank you to all nurses, techs.....❤️