Meeting
Abstract Number: 111
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Code Blues, or in-hospital cardiopulmonary arrests, are high intensity, often fatal events occurring frequently within the hospital. National data reviews estimate that survival to discharge following an in-hospital cardiac event is about 24.4%. Further analysis has shown lower survival rates when comparing night shift physicians with day shift physicians (20.7% and 27.5% respectively), but […]