code blue
noun
often capitalized C&B
: a declaration of or a state of medical emergency and call for medical personnel and equipment to attempt to resuscitate a patient especially when in cardiac arrest or respiratory distress or failure
summoned by emergency Code Blues, doctors had brought her back to life more than once—Bill Bryan
also
: the attempt to resuscitate the patient
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