GE CARESCAPE - Apnea alarms’ deactivation with the pause audio key; Setting the apnea alarm delay; Enabling the respiration cardiac artifact alarm; Respiration alarm priorities

Impedancerespiration
Apneaalarms’deactivationwiththepauseaudiokey
ApneaalarmscanbedeactivatedwiththepauseaudiokeyiftheAllowalarm
deactivationwiththeAudioPausekeyfor:settingApnea(CO2/Imped)isenabledin
theCareUnitSettings.Thissettingispasswordprotected.
Formoreinformation,seetheCARESCAPEModularMonitorsSupplemental
InformationManual.
Settingtheapneaalarmdelay
NOTE
PDMandTRAMonly.ThedelayforthePSMisalways20
seconds.
YoucanselecttheapneaalarmdelaybydeningsecondsintheApneaLimitSeconds
setting(3-30seconds).Ifanythingelsethanthedefault(20seconds)isselected,the
selectedsecondsaredisplayedintheparameterwindow.
1.Selecttheimpedancerespirationparameterwindow.
2.SelecttheAlarmstab.
3.SettheApneaLimitSecondswiththearrowselectors.
Enablingtherespirationcardiacartifactalarm
NOTE
PDMandTRAMonly.
ThecardiacartifactalarmcanbeenabledtodisplaytheCardiacartifactmessage
whentherespirationrateiswithin5%oftheECGheartrate.Ittakesabout30breaths
beforethemoduledetectsacardiacartifactalarmcondition.
1.Selecttheimpedancerespirationparameterwindow.
2.SelecttheAlarmstab.
3.SelectCardiacArtifact>AlarmOn.
Respirationalarmpriorities
YoucanselectprioritiesfortheApnea(Impedance)andRR(Impedance)high/low
alarmsthroughAlarmSetup>AlarmPriorities>OtherParameters.Theavailable
choicesdependonwhathasbeenallowedintheCareUnitSettings(password
protectedsetting).Ifallprioritieshavebeenallowed,youcanselectoneofthe
following:
●Escalating
●High
●Medium
●Low
●Informational(Apnea(Impedance)only)
Turningofftherespirationmeasurement
1.Selecttheimpedancerespirationparameterwindow.
2.SelecttheSetuptab.
3.SelectRespirationMeasurement>Off.
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