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14.1 Review Overview
Trends are patient data collected over time and displayed in graphic, tabular, or other 
forms to give you a picture of how the patient's condition is developing. The Review 
dialog also enables access to review the events, scores, and so on.
14.2 Review Dialog
The Review dialog contains tabs to display trend data in tabular, graphic, or other forms. 
14.2.1 Accessing the Review Dialog
To enter the review dialog, select the Review quick key. 
14.2.2 Example Review Dialog
The review dialogs have similar structure. The graphic trends review dialog is taken as an 
example:
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14.2.3 Reviewing the Tabular Trends
The Tabular Trends review dialog displays trend data in a tabular form. You can select a 
patient and trends of a certain period or type to be viewed. Follow this procedure:
1. Select the Review quick key → select Tabular Trends tab.
2. Set the filtering condition to PID, Name, or Visit No.. Then select the information 
of the patient to be viewed.
3. Set Filter to a period of time (30 seconds to 3 hours selectable), a parameter 
(Temp, Scoring etc.) or type of data (Manually Saved for example).
4. Select a record to be viewed and select Detail to check more information.
(1) Record button: select it to output patient information and data through the 
recorder.
(2) Current window time line: indicates the time length of the current screen.
(3) Waveform area: displays trend curves. The color of trend curves is consistent with 
the color of parameter labels.
(4) Zoom: select the time duration of data to be viewed on one screen.
(5)
 or  : goes to the previous or next event.
(6)
: displays events in a chronological order. The most recent event is displayed 
at the top. The number of exclamatory marks before an event indicates alarm 
priority.
(7)
 or  : moves the cursor backward or forward
(8)
: indicates the position of current screen time in the entire time length. 
Dragging the slider left or right enables you to locate the trend data at a specific 
time and also refreshes data in current window accordingly.
(9) Cursor
(10) Numeric area: displays numeric values at the cursor indicated time. The 
background color of numeric values indicates the alarm priority.
(11) Event area: displays the event of the cursor time. Selecting the event accesses the 
event list. If there is no event at the cursor time, the cursor time is displayed.
(12) Event type indicator: different color blocks match different types of events:
• Red: high priority alarm event
• Yellow: medium priority alarm event
• Cyan: low priority alarm event
• White: operation-related event