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10.2 How to respond to an alarm
WARNING
• Ensure the patient has adequate ventilation,
this prevents possible patient injury when
alarms are active. Identify and rectify the cause
of the alarms. Re-adjust the alarm limits only
when they are inappropriately set for the
current conditions.
• When an equipment malfunction occurs,
HAMILTON MEDICAL recommends that you
immediately remove any ventilator with a tech-
nical fault from use, record the technical fault
(TF) number, and have the device serviced.
CAUTION
Setting alarm limits to extreme values can render
the alarm system useless.
NOTE:
• Be aware that an alarm can result from either
a clinical condition, or an equipment problem.
• Be aware that one alarm condition can induce multi-
ple alarms. Normally only one or two indicate the
root cause of the alarm; the rest occur as a result.
Your search for the causes of the alarm condition
could be assisted by, but not limited to, the alarm
messages displayed.
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