Priority Codes

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• 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 deceased]

    *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