Philips IntelliVue MX800 - Enabling Automatic Mode and Setting Repetition Time; Choosing the NBP Alarm Source

9 Monitoring NBP
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CAUTION
Use clinical judgment to decide whether to perform repeated series of STAT measurements because of
the risk of purpura, ischemia and neuropathy in the limb with the cuff.
Enabling Automatic Mode and Setting Repetition
Time
1 In the Setup NBP menu, select Mode and select Auto from the pop-up menu.
2 For an automatic measurement, select Repeat Time and set the time interval between two
measurements.
Enabling Sequence Mode and Setting Up The
Sequence
1 In the Setup NBP menu, select Mode and select Sequence from the pop-up menu.
2 Select Setup Sequence to open the Setup Sequence window.
Up to four measurement cycles can be setup which will run consecutively. For each cycle you can
set the number of measurements and the interval between them. If you want to run less than four
cycles in a sequence, you can set the number of measurements for one or more cycles to
Off.
3 Select each sequence in turn and select the number of measurements and the time interval between
the measurements.
4 To have measurements continue after the sequence, set the number of measurements for your last
cycle to
Continuous and this cycle will run indefinitely.
CAUTION
Be aware that, if none of the cycles are set to Continuous, NBP monitoring will end after the last
measurement of the cycle.
When the NBP measurement mode is set to Sequence, the repetition time for Auto mode cannot be
changed.
Choosing the NBP Alarm Source
You can monitor for alarm conditions in systolic, diastolic and mean pressure, either singly or in
parallel. Only one alarm is given, with the priority of mean, systolic, diastolic.
In the
Setup NBP menu, select Alarms from and choose from: