Using Pulse Alarms

7 Monitoring Pulse Rate

WARNING Selecting Pulse as the active alarm source for HR/Pulse switches off the arrhythmia alarms listed in the section “ECG, Arrhythmia, and ST Alarm Overview” on page 104, and the heart rate alarms. This is indicated by the message All ECG Alarms Off (unless this has been configured off for your monitor), and the crossed-out alarm symbol beside the ECG heart rate numeric.

High and low pulse rate and extreme bradycardia and extreme tachycardia alarms from pulse are active.

Alarm Source Selection Disabled

If Alarm Source Selection is disabled, you cannot change the alarm source. If you try to change the source, the monitor displays the message To activate enter Config and enable AlarmSourceSel. This setting can only be changed in Configuration Mode.

Changing HR/Pulse Alarm Limits

As Pulse and HR share the same high and low alarm limits, if you change the alarm limit in the Setup Pulse menu, the high or low alarm limits for HR in the Setup ECG menu change automatically, and vice versa. The only exceptions are caused by a low limit clamp for each measurement: the lowest value for Pulse when derived from SpO2 is 30 bpm; for HR 15 bpm, and for Pressure 25 bpm.

Extreme Alarm Limits

The extreme rate alarms, Extreme Tachy and Extreme Brady, generated by the active alarm source, either HR or Pulse, are set in Configuration Mode by adding a set value to the high and low alarm limits. You need to know what value has been configured for your monitor. Changing the high and low alarm limits automatically changes the extreme alarm limits within the allowed range.

♦To see the values added to the high and low limit alarms to create the extreme rate alarms for your monitor, in the Setup ECG menu, see the menu items ∆ ExtrTachy and ∆ ExtrBrady.

QRS Tone

The active alarm source is also used as a source for the QRS tone. You can change the tone volume in the Setup SpO2 and Setup ECG menus and the QRS tone modulation in the Setup SpO2 menu.

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