Setting up Mainstream and Sidestream CO214 Monitoring Carbon Dioxide
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Suppressing Zero Calibration

To prevent an automatic zero calibration from being started in the next five minutes,
in the Setup CO2 menu, select No Zero for 5 Min, or select the Suppress CO2 Zero
SmartKey, if configured.
Selecting No Ze ro fo r 5 Min or selecting the Suppress CO2 Zero SmartKey again before the
timer has timed out resets the timer to five minutes, unless an AutoZero became due during the
previous suppression.
Setting up Mainstream and Sidestream CO2
These tasks are common to all CO2 measurements except where otherwise noted.

Adjusting the CO2 Wave Scale

1In the CO2 Wave menu or the Setup CO2 menu, select Scale.
2Choose a suitable scale range from the pop-up list.

Setting up CO2 Corrections

Temperature, water vapor in the patient’s breath, barometric pressure, and the proportions of O2, N2O
and Helium in the mixture all influence CO2 absorption. If values seem inaccurately high or low,
check that the monitor is using the appropriate corrections.
Correction
Altitude
(M3014A
only)
Altitude is set during installation. The monitor automatically applies an appropriate
correction.
O2
(M3014A
only)
In the Setup CO2 menu, select Oxygen Corr and select a value between 0% and
100%, the default value is 16%.
If the O2 correction is not available in the Setup CO2 menu, the CO2 measurement
in your Measurement Server Extension does not require O2 correction.
Humidity At installation, the monitor is configured to automatically apply either Body Temperature
Pressure Saturated (BTPS) or Standard Temperature Pressure Dry (STPD). To see
which, go to the Setup CO 2 menu, and scroll down to look at HumidtyCorr.
N2O
(M3016A
mainstream
and M3015A
microstream
only)
In the Setup CO2 menu, select N2O Corr and turn on or off. If N2O is present in
the ventilation gas mixture, you must turn this on.
If the N2O correction is not available in the Setup CO2 menu, the CO2
measurement in your Measurement Server Extension does not require N2O correction
or it is setup with Gas Corr (see below).
Gas
(M3014A
only)
In the Setup CO2 menu, select Gas Corr and select Helium, N2O or turn off. If
Helium or N2O is present in the ventilation gas mixture, you must make the
appropriate selection.
If the Gas correction is not available in the Setup C O2 menu, the CO2 measurement
in your Measurement Server Extension does not require N2O or Helium correction or
the N2O correction is setup with N2O Corr (see above).