well this story was not witnessed first hand but came from someone who was present at the scene…

code rush: is an overhead page for all available men to a patient’s room in order to calm or man-handle a patient who is out of control

today there was a “code rush” on the CVICU (cardiovascular intensive care unit), where a male patient was standing atop his hospital bed screaming, pulling out his IV’s, being obsene, cursing, etc…well no MEN hospital workers showed up, so therefore this irate patient had to be controlled and contained by 6 female nurses and 4 security officers (who showed up later). the code RUSH lasted for a good 30-40 minutes in order to put another IV line in the patient and sedate him with IV medications all the while holding him down. the patient was going through DT’s (alcohol detox) and these patients can become pretty dangerous and “out of their minds” during their detoxification. everything eventually became undercontrol and lets just say that that patient is now sleeping off his detox with the aide of wonderful medications.

i am so upset i missed all the action. i would have loved to be in the middle of all of it. maybe next time i will just have to report to a “code RUSH”