The immediate need for reallocation of staff and material resources to life-threatening critical situations, such as cardiac arrest, has been recognized in the medical and nursing literature since the early 1990s under the term code teams (Blackhall, 1987;Molan, 2013;Whitcomb, 1990). Similar concepts in this field of research include "code blue," "emergency code," "hospital rapid response team" and "emergency teams" (ETs), which is the term used here. ETs are a service that can be called in emergency circumstances anywhere in the hospital. Further, ETs provide support in hospitals and are manned by regular staff, such as nurses and physicians, who are specially trained in anaesthesia and/or intensive care. Despite the well-established concept of ETs, there are no strict policies about their design. However, the ETs hold a vital position in hospitals, as it is well-known that successful cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) outcomes correlate with two main components: the time elapsed between cardiac arrest and initiation of CPR and the