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4.3.3 Sensors on/off: Enabling/disabling SpO
2
,
O
2
, and CO
2
monitoring
WARNING
The HAMILTON-G5’s oxygen monitoring function
can be disabled. To prevent possible patient injury
due to nonfunctional alarms and monitoring, how-
ever, HAMILTON MEDICAL recommends oxygen
monitoring always be enabled.
NOTE:
• For automatic oxygen adjustment, O
2
monitoring
must be enabled.
•O
2
monitoring is enabled and cannot be disabled
during heliox administration.
•To enable CO
2
and SpO
2
monitoring, configure this
hardware option first (see Appendix J). When this
option is disabled, the corresponding alarms and
monitoring values are not displayed.
• Not all controllers are operational if SpO
2
, O
2
and
CO
2
are disabled.
To enable sensors:
1. Touch the tab
System
->
Sensors on/off
window
(Figure 4-5).
2. When required, touch the
O
2
monitoring
,
CO
2
moni-
toring
, and/or appropriate
SpO
2
monitoring
check
boxes to enable/disable these monitoring functions.