Alarms
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Alarm Silence Button
V*Home will emit an audible series of tones whenever a high- or medium-priority
alarm activates. Press the Alarm Silence button on the front of V*Home to silence the
active alarm tones for 60 seconds. Press the Alarm Silence button again (or wait 60
seconds) to reactivate the alarm tones.
NOTE: The visual alarm (indicating the alarm condition and priority) will remain on
the V*Home screen.
NOTE: The Internal Battery Critically Low alarm cannot be silenced until V*Home is plugged into an external source of
power. To silence the alarm after plugging in V*Home, access the Alarm Log (by pressing the alarm banner in the upper
left‑hand corner of the screen or pressing LOGS in the Menu tab), and then select CLEAR LIST.
Changing Alarm Settings
WARNING: The V*Home clinician is responsible for setting alarm limits appropriately for each patient condition. Do
not set alarm limits to values that render the alarm system useless. Failure to set alarm limit values appropriately for the
patient condition may result in patient harm.
To change ventilator alarm settings:
1 Press the Menu tab, or the VENTILATION button on the Therapy screen.
2 Press the SETTINGS & ALARMS button.
3 A Settings banner appears in the list rst. Scroll down to the Alarms section.
4 Scroll to the applicable alarm and press its name.
5 Press EDIT > on the right side of the screen.
6 If the alarm has both low and high alarm limits, press the
L
icon to modify the low alarm limit, or the
H
icon
to modify the high alarm limit. Enter the new alarm setting and press ACCEPT to save your selection.
7 Follow the procedure above to modify additional alarms. When conguration is complete, press the < EXIT tab.
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