Hamilton G5 - Breath Timing Philosophies (Adult Patients; Breath Timing Philosophies (Adult Patients)

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To enable alarms:
1. Click the alarm entries to enable.
2. Choose from the following parameters:
3. Touch
Close .
4. If you are done configuring the ventilator, touch
Close/
Save
to save your selections.
J.4.1 Breath timing philosophies (adult patients)
The operator defines mandatory breath timing with settings
that may include:
• Breath rate, in b/min (Rate)
• Inspiratory:expiratory ratio (I:E)
• Duration of inspiration phase not including pause,
in seconds or % of total cycle time (TI or %TI)
• Duration of inspiratory pause/plateau, in seconds (Pause
or Tip)
• Peak flow, in l/min (Peak Flow)
Parameter Notes
Controls
(ventilation
philosophies)
Select a preferred way to define time profiles
of breath cycles.
Alarms Enable from 0 to 8 operator-set alarms. If an
alarm is disabled, it will not be possible to
set it from the
Alarms window, and the
device will not alarm for this condition. The
high Pressure and low ExpMinVol alarms
cannot be disabled. See Appendix A for
details on the alarm settings.
Length Select the unit of measure for patient
height.
CO
2
pressure Select the unit of measure for CO
2
pressure.