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C-4 250cx Series Maternal/Fetal Monitor Revision C

2036946-001

Spectra Alerts: Using the Spectra Alert Option

Using the Spectra Alert Option

Enabling/Disabling Spectra Alerts

CAUTION

CIS—The Spectra Alerts option provides bedside alerts only. If

you connect the 250cx Series Monitor to a Quantitative Sentinel

or Spectra 400 Alert and Surveillance Central System you must

disable the Spectra Alerts feature in the monitor.

The Spectra Alerts option, when installed, is enabled/disabled from the Fetal Alert/

Alarm field on the password-protected Install Options service screen. FHR alarms and

Spectra Alerts cannot be enabled at the same time. You may select one or the other;

or you can disable them both. To effect a change to the Fetal Alarms setting, you

must turn the monitor off, then back on again.

When the Alerts option is enabled, a solid bell icon displays next to the FHR

mode title(s) and prints on the strip chart paper prior to the active FHR mode

annotation(s). Refer to the Figure, “Spectra Alert Enabled Annotation,” on page C-5

and the Figure, “Example of a Level One Decelerations Alert,” on page C-6. This

icon indicates that the feature is enabled only; it does not indicate the presence of an

alert condition.

Methodology

The Spectra Alerts feature is designed to assist the perinatal staff in assessing the

status of monitored patients by recognizing normal and abnormal pattern features.

Medically researched pattern recognition techniques are utilized to detect when the

pre-set limits

have been exceeded. When abnormal features are recognized by the

system, these features are displayed on an Alert Parameters area on the FECG, US, or

US2 Setup screen—whichever is affected. When the abnormal feature(s) meet the

preset criteria for an alert, the monitor provides an audible and visual indication of

that alert. When an alert condition is detected, the system categorizes the alert into

one of three levels—with level three being the most severe. Refer to the “Possible

Alert Conditions” Table.

Limits are not user-selectable.

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