Troubleshooting and Maintenance
BD Alaris
TM
System with Guardrails
TM
Suite MX User Manual 327
NOTE:
Monitoring alarms are either high or medium priority, there are no lo
w priority Monitoring alarms.
NOTE:
The signal priority for both Monitoring and Infusion
alarms is indicated by both an audio signal and by the
color of the module status indicator, which may include a flashing behavior.
Definitions of Alerts
Monitoring Alarms
An alarm arising from a monitoring module.
Monitoring and Infusion high priority alarms—module status indicator
flashes red
Monitoring
and Infusion medium priority alarms—module
status indicator
flashes yellow
Infusion low priority alarms—module status indica
tor appears in steady
yellow
Terms Definitions
Advisory/Message
A sequence of audio and/or visual signals indicating the system operation status.
Alarm Signal
An audible and visual indicator of a potential or actual hazardous condition.
Alarm Silence
Alarms can be silence for up to 120 seconds by pressing the
SILENCE
key. The alarm
indicator remains on and the alarm silence symbol is displayed. The silence period
can be ended by pressing the
CANCEL SILENCE
soft key. An alarm can be silenced
in the
PANEL LOCKED
condition.
Alert
A visual, audible, or visual and audible signal provided by the system. This includes
alarms, informational, and reminder signals.
Calibration Check
A technical procedure, defined in the Technical Services Manual, to verify instrument
calibration.
Cancel Silence
An alarm may be canceled by pressing the cancel silence soft key. If the alarm
condition has not been resolved, the alarm audio resumes.
Clinical Advisory
A visual message when a designated drug is selected to remind the clinician of
specific hospital/facility standards of practice when programming an IV medication.
A specific Clinical Advisory and/or message can be associated with a selected drug
within any of the patient care profiles. Clinical Advisories are not displayed in
Anesthesia mode.
Control Unit
PCU and Auto-ID (barcode) module
High Priority Alarm
A high-priority alarm is initiated by any alarm condition requiring immediate user
response.
Terms Definitions
A
L
A
R
M
I
N
FU
S
E
S
T
A
N
D
B
Y
RATE (mL/h)
Status Indicators
Alarm
(red)
Infusing
(green)
Standby
(yellow)
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