In the community (outside a health care facility), the first rescuer on the scene may be performing CPR alone. Code Blue Physician Team Members: •Emergency Physician •Internist on-call •Anaesthetist on-call •Most Responsible Physician (MRP) if available. Trick of the Trade: Stickers to Identify Team Members in Protected Code Blues The essential Roles are that of the Team Leader, Recorder, Compressors, Respiratory, Vascular Access/Medication RN and the Code Cart RN. NOTE: For ICU/ER: the 2 RN’s are from the respective areas will respond: therefore, if Code Blue in ICU, ER RN will not respond and if Code Blue in ER, ICU RN will not respond. * Sometimes Code Team Roles are combined if there are not enough personnel to perform all of these Roles separately. It is important to quickly and efficiently organize team members to effectively participate in ACLS. Calling out loudly for help is the initial request for assistance, and locally responding assistants are designated to formally call the code blue through the facility-wide response system. As institutions develop their own mock code blue training programs it would be important to include these groups in the training sessions as doing so would simulate the entire code blue team and help create a training program that addresses all code blue team members… 6 While awaiting members of the hospital-wide code team to arrive, a nurse should initiate CPR and other interventions. What are the Code Team Roles? However, a Code Blue in a hospital may bring dozens of responders/providers to a patient’s room. With several team members assembled in the resuscitation bay in full PPE, it can be challenging to identify specific individual members of the team and their role.