Setting up all CO
2
Measurements 15 Monitoring Carbon Dioxide
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Suppressing Sampling (not Mainstream CO
2
)
To temporarily stop sampling,
♦ in the Setup CO
2
menu, select Pump 15Min Off or use the CO
2
Pump Off SmartKey if
available.
Selecting Pump 15Min Off again before fifteen minutes have passed resets the timer to fifteen
minutes.
To re-start the pump,
♦ in the Setup CO
2
menu, select Pump On.
Changing CO
2
Alarms
This refers to CO
2
specific alarms. See the Alarms section for general alarm information.
1 In the Setup CO
2
menu, select etCO
2
High or imCO
2
High and choose the high alarm
limit.
2 Select etCO
2
Low and choose the low alarm limit.
Changing the Apnea Alarm Delay
This determines the time limit after which the monitor alarms if the patient stops breathing.
1 In the Setup CO
2
menu, select awRR.
2 Choose the apnea alarm delay time.
WARNING Safety and effectiveness of the respiration measurement method in the detection of apnea, particularly
the apnea of prematurity and apnea of infancy, has not been established.
Deriving Alarms From awRR
1 In the Setup CO
2
menu, select awRR.
2 In the Setup awRR menu, select Alarms.
3 Choose On to derive alarms from the airway respiration signal or Off to disable them.
Humidity At installation, the monitor is configured to automatically apply either Body Temperature
Pressure Saturated (BTPS) or Ambient Temperature Pressure Dry (ATPD). To see
which, go to the Setup CO
2
menu, and scroll down to look at HumidtyCorr.
Gas
In the Setup CO
2
menu, select Gas Corr. and select Helium, N
2
O or turn off.
If Helium or N
2
O is present in the ventilation gas mixture, you must make the
appropriate selection.
Agent
In the Setup CO
2
menu, select Agent Corr. and select the concentration of the
anesthetic agent (between 0.0% and 20.0%). If an anesthetic agent is present in the
ventilation gas mixture, you must select the appropriate concentration.
Correction
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