Philips IntelliVue Series - Basic Arrhythmia; Enhanced Arrhythmia

Clinical Applications
1-34 Introducing the IntelliVue Information Center System
for heart rate and ventricular arrhythmia. Multi-lead arrhythmia monitoring is performed on
the user-selected primary ECG lead and the secondary ECG lead.
The following arrhythmia monitoring functionality is provided for both standard models of
the Information Center system. For both models, beat annotation and rhythm and ectopic
status messages are provided in the Patient Window.
Basic
Arrhythmia
Basic Arrhythmia functionality includes the basic cardiotach functions of heart rate, PVC
rate, beat-to-beat heart rate, and the detection of the following 10 alarms:
• Asystole
• Ventricular fibrillation
• Ventricular tachycardia
• Extreme bradycardia
• Extreme tachycardia
• Pacer not capturing
• Pacer not pacing
• PVC/min
• High heart rate
• Low heart rate
Enhanced
Arrhythmia
Enhanced Arrhythmia adds the following 11 alarms to the Basic Arrhythmia functionality.
• Irregular heart rate
• Nonsustained V-Tach
• Supraventricular Tach
• Ventricular Rhythm
•Run PVCs
•Pair PVCs
• R-on-T PVC
• Multiform PVCs
•Pause
• Ventricular bigeminy
• Ventricular trigeminy
Details of the arrhythmia alarms and user interfaces are provided in the IntelliVue
Information Center Instructions for Use. Details of the arrhythmia algorithm are described
in the Arrhythmia Monitoring Application Note provided in the Documentation CD-ROM
shipped with your system.