● A crash cart or code cart (crash trolley in is a set of trays/drawers/shelves on wheels
used in hospitals for transportation and dispensing of emergency
medication/equipment at site of medical/surgical emergency for life support
protocols to potentially save someone's life.
● specialty to specialty, but typically contain the tools and drugs needed to treat a
person in or near cardiac arrest or another life-threatening condition.
● Hospitals typically have internal intercom codes used for situations when someone
has suffered a cardiac arrest or a similar potentially fatal condition outside of the
emergency department or intensive care unit (where such conditions already
happen frequently and do not require special announcements)
● specialty to specialty, but typically contain the tools and drugs needed to treat a
person in or near cardiac arrest or another life-threatening condition
