Philips IntelliVue MX800 - Managing Patients; Admitting a Patient; NOTE; 1 Select the patient name field or select the Admit;Dischrg SmartKey to open the Patient Demographics window.

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Use the Patient Demographics window and its associated pop-up keys to admit, discharge, and
transfer (ADT) patients.
All patient demographic and ADT information is shared between the patient monitor and the
Information Center, for example, patients admitted to the monitor are automatically admitted to a
connected Information Center.
Note that when an X2 or MP5 monitor is connected to a host monitor, its ability to admit or discharge
a patient is disabled, and the host monitor controls patient demographic and ADT information.
Admitting a Patient
The monitor displays physiological data and stores it in the trends as soon as a patient is connected.
This lets you monitor a patient who is not yet admitted. It is however important to admit patients
properly so that you can identify your patient on recordings, reports, and networked devices.
During admission you enter data that the monitor needs for safe and accurate operation. For example,
the patient category setting determines the algorithm the monitor uses to process and calculate some
measurements, the safety limits that apply for some measurements, and the alarm limit ranges.
NOTE
It is strongly recommended that the same patient data fields be configured to be mandatory at the
monitor and the Information Center.
To admit a patient,
1 Select the patient name field or select the Admit/Dischrg SmartKey to open the Patient
Demographics
window.
2 Clear any previous patient data by selecting the Dischrge Patient or End Case pop-up key and
then
Confirm.
If you do not discharge the previous patient, you will not be able to distinguish data from the
previous and current patients, for example, in the trend database.
3 Select Admit Patient.
4 Enter the patient information: select each field and use the on-screen keyboard or choose from the
pop-up list of alternatives to input information.
If a conventional keyboard or a barcode scanner is connected to the monitor you can use this to
enter patient information.
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Last Name: Enter the patient's last name (family name), for example Doe.
–
First Name: Enter the patient's first name, for example Doe, John.