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Audio Pause and Alarm Reset Features

This section describes the Audio Pause and Alarm Reset features.

Audio Pause

When an alarm occurs, you can temporarily silence the audible indicator by pressing the Alarm Indicator/Audio Pause button. The alarm is silenced for 60 seconds and then will sound again if the cause of the alarm has not been corrected. Each time the Alarm Indicator/Audio Pause button is pressed, the alarm silence period resets to one minute.

When Audio Pause is active, the Alarm Indicator/Audio Pause symbol

( ) appears if you are on the Monitor screen. Additionally, an “Audio Pause” message displays in the menu banner on the Alarm Display screen.

You can ‘pre-silence’ alarms that have not yet occurred by pressing the Alarm Indicator/Audio Pause button while no alarms are active. Then, if an alarm occurs, the audible indicator does not sound until the Audio Pause time limit has expired. This can be useful during patient setup, so caregivers can prevent alarms from sounding that they know will occur during the setup process. The LED and display will still show the alarm, but the audible alarm will not sound.

Alarm Reset

The Reset button is used to clear the currently active alarm(s) from the display and stop the LED and audible alarm indicator. This button should be selected after the situation causing the alarm(s) has been corrected. All active alarms are cancelled and alarm detection is restarted when this button is selected.

The ventilator self-cancels certain alarms if the cause of the alarm is corrected, shutting off the alarm LED, the audible alarm, and the alarm background color. However, the alarm text remains on the screen. You can manually reset an alarm by pressing the Left button (Reset). The Audio Pause function is cancelled if the alarm is manually reset.

Chapter 6 Ventilator Alarms