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Code Status

Code Status

Play like it matters.

The patient room: room, name, and vitals across the top, the patient in bed, and the History, Exam, Workup, Treatment, and Diagnosis dock along the bottom.

Emergency medicine,
simulated.

The patient is yours. Make the call.

Code Status

Medical simulation game

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Make the call. See what happens.

Six steps. Every patient.

Serious medicine. Actually fun to play. Every case follows the same rhythm, so you can focus on the patient, your decisions and what happens next.

A medical simulation game built for learning emergency care: treat the patient, see the consequences of your decisions, and learn the medicine behind every case.

The workup sheet with bedside, labs, and imaging tabs. A 12-lead ECG and a point-of-care cardiac ultrasound are selected.
The assessment sheet, listing aortic dissection, GERD, pericarditis, pulmonary embolism, and STEMI as the differential to commit to.
  1. History
  2. Exam
  3. Workup
  4. Treatment
  5. Diagnosis
  6. Disposition

Clinical judgment, played out.

The patient reacts to what you do.

Megan Bennett resting comfortably in an emergency department bed, the cellulitis on her forearm clearly red.
Stable

When to stop testing, and the right disposition. Nothing arrives to rescue you from the decision.

Maya Chen looking frightened and short of breath on nasal cannula as her deep vein thrombosis becomes something worse.
Evolving

She looks well enough to go home. She does not stay that way.

Walter Higgins in cardiac arrest: a mechanical compression device running on his chest while gloved hands ventilate him with a bag-valve mask.
Code Mode

Compressions, cycles, and a cause you have to find while the clock runs.

A shoulder radiograph with the dislocated humeral head circled, sitting forward and below the glenoid.
Procedure Mode

Some problems you fix with your hands.

Read the film, sedate, and reduce.

The case complete screen: 87 out of 100, rated Outstanding, with the score broken down across diagnosis, workup, treatment, timing, and disposition.
The clinical record: fifteen cases completed, split into outstanding, strong, and foundational, with fourteen recognitions earned.

Score it. Replay it. Beat your best.

The medicine is real. The patient is not. The consequences are yours. Every decision shapes what happens next, your score and your debrief. Try a different approach and see where it leads. Only your best run counts. Your record follows you.

Attending’s Notes

Play first.
Learn deeply afterward.

After each case, Attending’s Notes breaks down what mattered, the reasoning behind it, and what to carry forward. Then Make the Call adds fast bedside questions that lock in the lesson.

10 cited sources per case, linked to the originals.

The Attending's Notes teaching deck, open on a lesson about recognizing anterior STEMI from the 12-lead.

Code Status

Can you master all 30?

Written for clinicians and medical learners. Every case is authored and every patient is fictional. Cardiology, pulmonary, neurology, abdominal, vascular, infectious disease, and procedures. New cases are added regularly.

The active case board, listing waiting patients by chief complaint, name, room, and acuity.
Diane Kessler, presenting with chest pain
Chest Pain
Diane Kessler
New case. Ethan Walsh, presenting with testicular pain
Testicular Pain
Ethan Walsh
New case. Imani Thompson, presenting with sore throat
Sore Throat
Imani Thompson
Estrella Bautista, presenting with sweating
Sweating
Estrella Bautista
New case. Arjun Gill, presenting with chest pain
Chest Pain
Arjun Gill
Thomas Whitaker, presenting with abdominal pain
Abdominal Pain
Thomas Whitaker
Samuel Okafor, presenting with facial droop
Facial Droop
Samuel Okafor
Nadia Khan, presenting with shortness of breath
Shortness of Breath
Nadia Khan
Emily Carter, presenting with lower abdominal pain
Lower Abdominal Pain
Emily Carter
Jordan Reyes, presenting with shoulder injury
Shoulder Injury
Jordan Reyes
Walter Boyd, presenting with weakness
Weakness
Walter Boyd
Isabel Navarro, presenting with pelvic pain
Pelvic Pain
Isabel Navarro
Robert Hensley, presenting with flank pain
Flank Pain
Robert Hensley
Ella Smith, presenting with headache
Headache
Ella Smith

Recently added

Your shift. Your call.

Somewhere to come back to.

Day or night, your downloaded cases are ready offline.

The Code Status home screen on a night shift: the brand mark above a darkened corridor and the open door of Room 12, with Start Shift below it.

Who it is for

Clinicians and medical learners.

Medical students, nursing students, residents, physicians, nurses, PAs, NPs and paramedics. Work a case at your own pace, commit to a call and review what mattered afterward. Two cases are free, every case can be replayed and your progress follows your account. Teaching? Send a learner into a case, then talk through the decisions they made; every case closes with sourced teaching, and scores are teaching feedback, not an assessment of competence.

Teaching a group? Tell us what you need.

Play two complete cases,
free.

Premium unlocks the full library, the teaching deck in every case, and new cases and features as they arrive.

For iPhone (iOS 16.4 or later) and Android phones (Android 7.0 or later).
Buy in the app or on this site. Cancel anytime.

Common questions.

Is Code Status a game or a simulator?

Both. It's an emergency medical simulation that plays like a game: you take the case, make the calls, get a score and replay to beat it.

Is Code Status a doctor or nursing simulation game?

Both, and more. It's built for doctors, nurses, PAs, NPs and paramedics, and for medical and nursing students learning emergency care. Built by a board-certified emergency physician.

Is it free?

Two complete cases are free, forever. Premium unlocks all 30 cases and every new case as it arrives.

Is it on Android?

Yes. Code Status runs on iPhone (iOS 16.4 or later) and Android (Android 7.0 or later).

The patient is yours.
Make the call.

Two cases are free on iPhone and Android. Take one and see how you score.

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