Alarms and Messages
VF4 Infinity Gamma Series Page 5-3
Serious Alarms
A serious alarm has the second highest priority. It alerts you to
significant changes in the patient’s condition other than life-
threatening events as defined in the preceding section. For exam-
ple, if a monitored parameter falls below the selected alarm lim-
its, the monitor triggers a serious alarm. An unrecognized
physiological condition, as when a detected parameter is outside
the monitor’s measuring range, triggers a serious alarm also.
NOTE: Apnea events trigger a serious alarm in all monitoring
modes.
A serious alarm has the following characteristics:
! The parameter box blinks and appears yellow.
! The monitor produces two short tones continuously.
! The monitor displays the alarm cause in both the parameter
box and the message area.
! The monitor stops the alarm automatically when the condi-
tion ceases to exist.
! The monitor stops the alarm when a new alarm of equal or
higher grade is triggered.
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