Code blue recorder
A digital code blue recorder for hospital code teams
Built for in-hospital code teams who are tired of squinting at half-finished paper code sheets after the event. Tap to time-stamp every action; export a printable code sheet for the chart and the audit team.
What you get
- Paper-code-sheet layout in PDFExports a one-page PDF with the same field order as a standard in-hospital code sheet — header, event log, drug totals, outcome.
- Handover-friendly scribe rolePass the device between scribes without losing state. Events are device-attributed, not user-attributed, so the timeline survives shift change or relief.
- Utstein-aligned key timingsCaptures time of recognition, first compressions, first shock, first adrenaline, and ROSC — the fields used in in-hospital cardiac arrest audit.
- Nothing leaves the device by defaultAll event data stays in the browser. Optional sign-in for personal record-keeping is opt-in; the default workflow stores nothing.
What is wrong with paper code sheets
Paper code sheets are a known weak point in in-hospital arrest care. They get written on the corner of the trolley, in three colours of pen, by a scribe who is also being asked to draw up adrenaline. By the end of a 30-minute resus the timeline is approximate at best.
When the same sheet has to support clinical handover, the patient record, the M&M meeting and the local audit, those small inaccuracies compound. The team disagrees about when ROSC was; the audit fails to capture time-to-first-shock; the case write-up takes an hour and is still uncertain.
What changes with a digital recorder
The scribe taps a labelled button instead of writing. The button time-stamps itself. The cycle counter advances automatically. The drug log totals adrenaline doses without the scribe having to count back through the page.
At the end of the arrest, the team has a legible, accurate timeline before anyone has left the room. The debrief two days later is grounded in the same data, not in three different people's memories of the same five minutes.
Designed for the way hospital arrests actually run
Hospital arrests are messy. The patient is often moved to resus mid-cycle; the team grows by three people in the first minute; a senior arrives and changes the plan. The recorder is built around that reality: events can be back-dated to the minute they actually happened, free-text notes can be added at any point, and the rhythm at each check is logged as a discrete choice, not a long sentence.
Outputs are designed for the people who read them after the event — the consultant writing the entry, the resus officer running the audit, the M&M chair preparing the slide. Each gets the same source: one PDF, one timeline, generated as soon as the timer stops.
Frequently asked
- How does it map to a paper code sheet?
- The exported PDF mirrors a standard in-hospital code sheet: header with arrest start time, witnessed status, initial rhythm, and downtime; a chronological event log with elapsed and wall-clock columns; cumulative drug totals; shock count and energies; and an outcome line (ROSC, transfer, termination).
- Can two scribes use it during a long arrest?
- Yes. The session is held in the browser, so handing the phone or tablet to a relief scribe takes a second. Every event is attributed to the device, not to a logged-in user, so handovers don't break the timeline.
- Is it suitable for hospital audit and Utstein reporting?
- The event log captures the time-critical fields used in Utstein in-hospital cardiac arrest reporting: time of recognition, time of first compressions, time to first shock, time of first adrenaline, and time of ROSC or termination. The PDF is a usable audit source on its own.
- Does it integrate with the EHR?
- Not directly — it intentionally stores nothing on the hospital network. The intended workflow is to print or save the PDF to the patient's record after the event, the same way a paper code sheet is scanned in.
- What if the code is called off as a false alarm?
- Stop the timer and discard. Nothing is uploaded; nothing is saved unless you explicitly export. A false-alarm call costs the team a tap.
CPR Scribe runs in the browser, installs to your home screen, and works offline. No account needed to start — sign in only if you want to save records.