title: Code Blue evaluation in children's hospital.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  True alarm rate of the Code Blue cases is at a low level in the Dr. Behçet Uz Children's Hospital in İzmir. This study aims to analyse the use of the Code Blue alarm cases in the children's hospital.
  
  
  METHODS
  This retrospective clinical study evaluated the age and the gender of the cases, the arriving time of the Code Blue team, the date and time of the Code Blue Call, the reasons of the Code Blue Call, and the verification which were all obtained from the Code Blue forms of the hospital dated between January 2014 and January 2015. The data of 139 Code Blue cases' forms were investigated and was divided into two groups: before and after the education containing 88 and 51 cases, respectively.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Conversive disorder (26% to 13%, P<0.01), syncope (21.5% to 19.6%, P<0.01), convulsion (17% to 13.7%, P<0.01), hypoglycemia (4.5% to 3.9%, P<0.01), anxiety (4.5% to 1.9%, P<0.01), head trauma due to syncope (4.5% to 0%), cardiac arrest (1.1% to 0%), respiratory difficulties (2.2% to 1.9%, P<0.01), suspicion of myocardial infarction (2.2% to 1.9%, P<0.01), fall from stairs (2.2% to 0%) and agitation cases (1.1% to 0%) were reduced, however, the hypertension cases were dramatically increased (3.4% to 29.4%, P<0.01) owing to the hospital staff's education. The Pearson's correlation coefficient before and after education was 0.837. About 97.8% of the Code Blue cases were false calls with female greater than male (P<0.01).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results of this study show that more education is required for the hospital's staff and a new color code that is to say pre-diagnosis team should be formed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, Dr. Behcet Uz Children Hospital, Konak, Izmir 35210, Turkey.
authors.forename: Kubra Evren
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Sahin
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, Dr. Behcet Uz Children Hospital, Konak, Izmir 35210, Turkey.
authors.forename: Oktay Zeki
authors.initials: OZ
authors.lastname: Ozdinc
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, Dr. Behcet Uz Children Hospital, Konak, Izmir 35210, Turkey.
authors.forename: Suna
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yoldas
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, Dr. Behcet Uz Children Hospital, Konak, Izmir 35210, Turkey.
authors.forename: Aylin
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Goktay
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, Dr. Behcet Uz Children Hospital, Konak, Izmir 35210, Turkey.
authors.forename: Selda
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dorak
keywords: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation; Code Blue; Hospital arrest