Instructions for use – Infinity Acute Care System – Monitoring Applications VG6.n 107
Alarms
Alarms
Overview of alarms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Alarm priorities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
High-priority alarm conditions . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Medium-priority alarm conditions . . . . . . . . 103
Low-priority alarm conditions . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Alarm processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Multiple alarm conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Activating or deactivating alarm validation . . . . 105
Optical alarm signals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Alarm bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Acoustic alarm signals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Attention tones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Special conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Deactivating the alarm volume . . . . . . . . . . 110
Testing optical and acoustic alarm signals . . . . 110
Viewing current alarm messages . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Special alarm behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
ASY/VF alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
SpO
2 desaturation alarms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
NIBP/SpO2 interlock alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Zeroing invasive blood pressures . . . . . . . . 112
Privacy mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Standby mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Cardiac bypass mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
OR alarms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
French NFC mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Pre-silencing alarms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Initiating a pre-silence period . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Pausing acoustic alarm signals (audio pause) . 115
Quiet mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Activating or deactivating acoustic alarm signals
117
Pausing alarm monitoring temporarily . . . . . . . 117
Activating or deactivating alarm monitoring . . . 118
Configuring the alarm settings for a patient . . . 119
Activating/deactivating alarms . . . . . . . . . . 119
Setting the upper and lower alarm limits. . . 120
Configuring the alarm setup for an individual pa-
rameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Configuring the alarm setup for multiple parameters
123
Configuring the alarm message behavior. . . . .125
Configuring the setup of alarm messages . . . . 128
Configuring the arrhythmia alarm setup . . . . . . 128
Configuring ARR alarm settings . . . . . . . . 128
Alarm setup for ST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Configuring ST alarm settings . . . . . . . . . . 131
Auto setting all alarm limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Alarm history and stored events . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Viewing a snapshot of a single event . . . . . . . 135
Viewing current alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Configuring alarm settings temporarily . . . . . . 136
Configuring the SpO
2 alarm priority. . . . . . . . . 137
Configuring the alarm priority for a Masimo sen-
sor off message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Configuring the alarm priority for a Nellcor
check sensor message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Remote alarm control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Alarm groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Infinity MCable – Nurse call. . . . . . . . . . . . 138
External device disconnection alarm. . . . . . . . 139
The Code function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Alarm ranges and defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Arrhythmia ranges and defaults. . . . . . . . . 147