Instructions for Use Infinity Acute Care System - Monitoring Applications SW VG1 71
Alarms
Alarms
Overview of Alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Alarm Priorities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
High-Priority Alarm Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Medium-Priority Alarm Conditions . . . . . . . . . . 73
Low-Priority Alarm Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Alarm Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Latching and Non-Latching Alarm Behaviour. . 74
Multiple Alarm Conditions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Enabling or Disabling Alarm Validation . . . . 75
Visual Alarm Signals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Alarm Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Audible Alarm Signals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Adjusting the Alarm Tone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Testing Visual and Audible Alarm Signals . . 79
Viewing Current Alarm Messages. . . . . . . . . 80
Special Alarm Behaviour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
ASY/VF Alarms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
SpO
2 Desaturation Alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
NIBP/SpO
2 Interlock Alarms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Privacy Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Standby Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Cardiac Bypass Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
OR Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
French NFC Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Pre-Silencing Alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Pausing Active Alarm Tones . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Enabling or Disabling an Audible Alarm
Signals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Pausing Alarm Monitoring Temporarily . . . . 84
Enabling or Disabling Alarm Monitoring
Permanently . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Configuring a Patient’s Alarm Settings. . . . 85
Enabling/Disabling Alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Upper and Lower Alarm Limits . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Archive Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Alarm Setup for an Individual Parameter . . 87
Changing Alarm Settings for a Single
Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Alarm Setup for Multiple Parameters . . . . . 89
Changing General Alarm Settings. . . . . . . . . . 90
Alarm Setup for Arrhythmia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Configuring ARR Alarm Settings . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Alarm Setup for ST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Configuring ST Alarm Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Auto-Setting All Alarm Limits. . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Alarm History and Stored Events . . . . . . . . 96
The Alarm History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Viewing a Snapshot of a Single Event. . . . . 98
Remote Alarm Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Alarm Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Infinity
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MCable-Nurse Call. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
External Device Disconnection Alarm. . . . . 100
The Code Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Alarm Ranges and Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Arrhythmia Ranges and Defaults . . . . . . . . . . 106