Arrhythmia Alarms

6 ECG, Arrhythmia, and ST Monitoring

Arrhythmia Alarm Chaining

When arrhythmia analysis is switched on, multiple alarm conditions may be present. Announcing all of the detected alarm conditions would be confusing, and might hide a more serious condition. For this reason, arrhythmia alarms are prioritized in three alarm “chains”: PVC Alarms; Beat Detection Alarms, and Rate Alarms.

Only the highest priority alarm condition in each chain is announced. Lower priority alarms in the same chain will not be announced while an alarm is active or during the configured timeout period. If alarm conditions of equal severity from different chains are detected, the alarm condition that occurred most recently is announced. The exception is Irregular HR, which only occurs if no other alarms are occurring.

See “ECG, Arrhythmia, and ST Alarm Overview” on page 104 for information on which alarms are included in the different arrhythmia options. See “Arrhythmia Alarm Timeout Periods” on page 113 for an explanation of how alarm timeouts work.

Red Arrhythmia Alarms

Asystole

Vent Fib/Tach

V-Tach

Extreme Tachy/Extreme Brady

lower priority higher priority

PVC Alarms Chain

Non-sustain VT/ Vent Rhythm

Run PVCs

Pair PVCs

R-on-T PVCs

Vent Bigeminy

Vent Trigeminy

PVCs > xx/min

Multiform PVCs

Yellow Arrhythmia Alarms

Beat Detection Alarms Chain

Pause

Pacer Not Captured/

Pacer Not Pacing/

Missed Beat

Rate Alarms Chain

SVT

HR High/ HR Low

Irregular HR

(occurs only if no other arrhythmia alarms are present)

First level timeout period (TimeOut

1st)

Second level timeout period (TimeOut

2nd)

–If there is an active Vent Bigeminy alarm, a PVCs > xx/min will not be triggered because it is lower on the same chain. However, a high HR alarm will become active because it is on a different chain.

–Higher priority alarms supersede previous alarms. For example, if a Vent Trigeminy alarm is active and a Pair PVCs occurs, the Pair alarm will be activated.

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Philips MP60/70/80/90, MP20/30 manual Arrhythmia Alarm Chaining, Red Arrhythmia Alarms, PVC Alarms Chain, Rate Alarms Chain
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