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Review Alarms Window
The Review Alarms window contains a list of up to 300 of the most recent alarms and INOPs with
date and time information. If configured to do so, each alarm is shown with the alarm limit active
when the alarm was triggered and the maximum value measured beyond this limit. The
Review Alarms
window also shows any changes made to the Alarms On/Off or Silence status. Note that only main
alarms On/Off transitions are logged in the alarm history, and On/Off alarm transitions for individual
measurements are not logged.
The information in the
Review Alarms window is deleted when a patient is discharged.
The
Review Alarms window pop-up keys appear when the window is opened. Selecting the Active
Alarms
pop-up key opens the Alarm Messages window.
Latching Alarms
The alarm latching setting for your monitor defines how the alarm indicators behave when you do not
acknowledge them. When alarms are set to non-latching, their indicators end when the alarm condition
ends. Switching alarm latching on means that visual and/or audible alarm indications are still displayed
or announced by the monitor after the alarm condition ends. The indication lasts until you
acknowledge the alarm.
Viewing the Alarm Latching Settings
To see the alarm latching setting for your monitor:
1 In the monitor's Main Setup menu, select Alarms.
2 Select Alarm Settings, and see the Visual Latching and Audible Latching settings.
This setting can be changed in Configuration Mode. You should be aware of the settings chosen for
your unit. There are three possible choices each for visual and audible latching: Red, Red and Yellow,
and Off. The audible latching configuration can never be configured to a higher level than that
configured for the visual latching. In other words, the audible latching setting is always the same level,
or lower, than the visual latching setting. For example, if visual latching is configured to
Red Only,
Alarms On
SpO₂ NON-PULSAT.
Alarms Silenced
** FHR1 HIGH
** SpO₂ LOW
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