Responding to Equipment Alarms (Alerts)
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6.4 Responding to Equipment Alarms (Alerts)
6.4.1 To Silence/Acknowledge Alerts (All Severities)
Equipment alerts are used when the ability to monitor the patient and detect a patient’s physiological
alarms may be affected.
Symbol
Annunciation
Color
Severity Audio Tone
Duration
(ms)
Spacing
(ms)
Cyan High B B P
B - Beep / P - Pause
There will be a 15 second pause
after each sequence.
250 250
Low No audio tones. N/A N/A