3: Operating the Device Alarms
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Responding to Alarms
Alarm limits are displayed with each parameter, if alarms for the parameter are on. When an alarm
condition occurs there are several ways to respond. Initially:
1 Attend to the patient.
2 Identify the alarm(s) indicated.
3 Silence (pause) the alarm(s). Press the Smart Select knob on the front panel of the Efficia
DFM100 to pause/silence the alarm and then press the knob again to acknowledge the alarm.
The alarm is paused for the configured pause period while you attend to the patient. If the
alarming condition continues to exist, it re-alarms after the configured pause period ends.
Silencing a specific alarm does not prevent another alarm from sounding. If you silence the
second alarm, it resets the pause period for all active alarms.
If you press the Alarms button, you are silencing all parameter alarms for the configured pause
period. No new alarms sound.
4 Address the alarm condition on the Efficia DFM100 by using the Alarm Response Menu, see
Figure 36.
NOTE: Alarm history can be accessed in the patient’s Event Summary. This information is maintained after
powering the device down and in the unlikely event of a power loss. To access this information, see
“Event Summary” on page 130.
For more information on alarms and messages as they pertain to a particular functionality, see the
specific alarm section in the Efficia DFM100 Instructions for Use:
• Heart rate and arrhythmia alarms - see “Heart Rate and Arrhythmia Alarms” on page 59
• AED alarms - see “AED Alarms” on page 75
• Defibrillation alarms - see “Manual Defibrillation Alarms” on page 84
• Cardioversion alarms - see “Cardioversion Alarms” on page 90
• Pacing alarms - see “Pacing Alarms” on page 97
•SpO
2
alarms - see “SpO
2
Alarms” on page 113
• Pulse alarms - see “Pulse Rate Alarms” on page 115
•NBP alarms - see “NBP Alarms” on page 122
•EtCO
2
and AwRR alarms - see “EtCO
2
and AwRR Alarms” on page 103
• Power alarms - see “Power-Related Alarms” on page 176
Figure 36 Sample Alarm Response Menu
Select this entry to change
the parameter’s alarm
limits.
For latching alarms,
clears the
alarm condition when the
condition no longer exists.
Turns the parameter’s
alarms off and prevents
future alarms from alarming.
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