Hamilton G5 - Setting up the Patient

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5.2 Setting up the patient
WARNING
• Ensure you choose the correct patient profile of
gender, adult, pediatric, and neonatal. Correct
selections prevent possible hyper- or hypo-
ventilation.
• Entering a substantially wrong height/IBW
input will lead to a deviation of rate setting.
Please check your entered value carefully on the
standby window, or after start of the ventila-
tion on the dynamic lung screen.
NOTE:
• If you selected
New patient , the basic screen will
open with the default settings for mode, control,
and the alarm settings. If you selected
Last
patient , the settings you see are the last active
ventilator parameters in use.
• Default patient group for
New patient and default
settings for each patient group (mode and controls)
are operator-configurable. See the Configuration
chapter.
• If an inadvertent setting is made but has not yet
been confirmed, it will automatically be canceled
after 30 seconds. Alternatively, the setting window
closes after 3 min, again canceling your settings.
• Start up values for automatic buttons are not user
configurable.
To set up the ventilator for a new patient:
1. Start up the ventilator (Figure 5-1).
2. Make sure the ventilator is configured with the appropriate
breathing circuit parts, as described in section 2.7. Chapter
6, Neonatal ventilation, includes additional information you
might find valuable when ventilating a neonatal patient.