The protected code blue is designed to keep your staff safe when managing a patient with COVID-19 who has a sudden cardiac arrest. You will continue to do high quality CPR, defibrillation (if indicated), give code medications, and BVM with airway management, now with a drape.

I’m going to outline a suggested plan for how to conduct a protected code blue at your hospital.

You will need to modify it to fit your hospitals requirements.

Outline:

• Limit personnel in the room and clearly define roles
• Proper Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
• The process of protected code blue

Personnel
Decide on the number of team members you need ahead of time. I suggest you need 4 people in the room to run the code. You should have 1 or 2 team members outside the room in PPE ready to enter if the team needs help or extra equipment is needed.

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