10-37 Emergency is OPEN to Code 3's only (ReDirect Considerations)
10-38 Emergency is CLEAR
10-50 Violent Psychiatric Patient
10-100 Bomb Threat
10-200 Have Police Attend (often abbreviated to 10-2's)
10-2000 Send Police IMMEDIATELY
Priority Codes
CODE 1 Any non-important call
CODE 2 Scheduled call
CODE 3 Prompt call, not life threatening, lights and siren optional
CODE 4 Life Threatening, lights on, siren optional
CODE 5 Obviously dead (Rigidity, Decomposition, Vivisection, Decapitation...)
CODE 6 Legally dead
CODE 7 Unstaffed at station OR out of service
*71 = No patient found
*72 = Patient refused care/transport
*73 = Patient expired [as in decease]
*74 = Patient in police custody
*75 = Transported by another ambulance
*76 = Canceled before patient contact
CODE 8 Standby at location
CODE 9 Unit in for servicing (Not Usable)
CODE 19 non-essential call
The Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale (CTAS) has five levels:
Level 1: Resuscitation – Conditions that are threats to life or limb
Level 2: Emergent – Conditions that are a potential threat to life, limb or function
Level 3: Urgent – Serious conditions that require emergency intervention
Level 4: Less urgent – Conditions that relate to patient distress or potential complications that would benefit from intervention
Level 5: Non-urgent – Conditions that are non-urgent or that may be part of a chronic problem