Configuration
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Instructions for use Primus Infinity Empowered SW 4.5n
immediate alarm upon apnea?
(patients <6 years)
If set to yes, the following alarms will be raised
immediately and as high-priority alarms for pa-
tients <6 years:
In this case, the flow apnea alarm cannot be
configured to be a low-priority alarm
(see page 181).
If set to no, these alarms will be raised with nor-
mal alarm cascade behavior.
z Press exit (G), to exit the menu.
Apnea alarm times:
Apnea alarms times of 20 seconds are increased to
35 seconds in mechanical ventilation modes with a
frequency of less than 6/minute and in Pressure
Support mode with a minimum frequency Freq
MIN
set to less than 6/minute or OFF.
Further information on setting alarm limits
Certain alarms are automatically turned off in
Man.Spont., Monitoring, and Ext. Outlet, see ta-
ble on page 132.
– APNEA PRESSURE
– APNEA FLOW
Apnea pres-
sure
after 20 seconds
Apnea flow after 20 seconds
Apnea CO
2 after 20 seconds
(after 65 seconds in Man.Spont.,
in Monitoring mode, and in Ext.
Outlet mode)
NOTE
The new default alarm limits are effective when-
ever the workstation is switched on and after se-
lecting restore default settings in Standby.