Alarmspecications
Legacyalarmtonesoundpatterns
PriorityCorrespondingsoundpattern
High
●Beep(500&510Hz/100ms)Silence(100ms)
●Beep(500&510Hz/100ms)Silence(100ms)
●Beep(500&510Hz/100ms)Silence(500ms)
Medium
●Beep(397&441Hz/100ms)Silence(100ms)
●Beep(397&441Hz/100ms)Silence(2.4s)
Low
Beep(397Hz/500ms)
Silenceis5sifLowPriorityAlarmToneissettoRepeat.
Auditoryinformationsignalcharacteristics
Measurementandstart-uprelatedinformationsignals
Signal
Frequency(Hz)Duration(ms)
Start-upsound
5231000
QRS/Pulsebeep
815
10whenBeatTone
SoundissettoSharp.
40whenBeatTone
SoundissettoSoft.
SpO
2
oxygensaturationlevelindicator(pitch)
920at100%SpO
2
900at98%SpO
2
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240at32%SpO
2
220at30%SpO
2
100
NIBPreadyprompt
250500
UItouchtone
660100
Remindertone
523125
Visualinformationsignals
Forinformationregardingvisualinformationsignals,seetheAlarmschapter.
Alarmdelayspecications
Thedisclosedalarmsystemdelaysaremeasuredbysimulatororrespectivemethods,
whichrepresentoptimalsignals.Possibleinterferencesandpoorqualitysignalsina
clinicalenvironmentmayextendthedisclosedalarmsystemdelays.
Thealarmgenerationconsistsoftwocomponents:thealgorithmdelayofeach
parameterandthexeddelayofthemonitorsoftware.Bothofthesecomponents
areincludedineachalarmsystemdelay.
Thedeterminationofanalarmconditionhasnominalfactors:signalquality,
movementartifact,heartrateforECGrelatedalarms,andrespirationratefor
impedancerespirationandCO
2
relatedalarms.
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