SPECIALTY MENUS
VF8 DELTA/DELTA XL/KAPPA 2-15
Extend All Alarms
OFF
Determines whether clinical personnel can
use the All Alarms Off fixed key to extend
the All Alarms Off time.
NOTE: This item only appears if your
monitor is configured for this feature
(contact your hospital’s technical
personnel for more information).
• Enabled
• Disabled (default)
Alarm
Validation
Validates the alarm conditions to limit
nuisance alarms due to artifact or motion/
movement by delaying time to alarm.
NOTE: When the Alarm Validation
setting is set to ON, the time to alarm from
the onset of a limit violation equals the time
for detection plus the designated alarm
validation signal delay. For HR, this time
may exceed the maximum of 10 seconds
as required by AAMI EC13 and IEC
60601-2-27.
Alarm validation times are:
Upper limitLower limit
HR 6 sec 6 sec
RESP 14 sec 14 sec
IBP 4 sec 10 sec
SpO
2
6 sec 10 sec
1
PLS 6 sec. 10 sec
1
SpO
2
* 4 sec 4 sec
PLS* 4 sec. immediately
All other parametersimmediately
1
See SpO2 Alarm Delay below.
• ON – Enables the alarm
validation.
• OFF (default) – Disables the
alarm validation.
SpO2 Alarm
Delay
Validates an SpO
2
alarm condition by
requiring that the violation persists for
10 seconds (lower limit) before sounding
an alarm.
NOTE: Alarm validation must be turned
ON. If Alarm Validation is turned OFF,
SpO2 Alarm Delay is automatically
turned OFF and menu selection is
ghosted.
• ON – SpO
2
or PLS lower limit
alarm conditions are
annunciated after it persists for
a period of 10 seconds.
• OFF – SpO
2
or PLS lower limit
alarm condition is not validated
before annunciation.
ASY/VF Alarms Allows user to prevent disabling of ASY
and VFIB alarms.
WARNING: When the HR alarm
is set to OFF and ARR
monitoring is set to “OFF”, the
monitor cannot generate ASY/VF
alarms.
• Always ON – ASY and VFIB
alarms are always active.
• Follow HR Alarms (default) –
ASY and VFIB alarms follow the
HR alarm settings.
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