14 Monitoring Carbon Dioxide Setting up Mainstream and Sidestream CO2
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Suppressing Sampling (not Mainstream CO2)
To temporarily stop sampling,
in the Setup CO2 menu, select Pump 15Min Off or use the CO2 Pump Off SmartKey if
available.
Selecting Pump 15Min Off again before fifteen minutes have passed resets the timer to fifteen
minutes.
To re-start the pump,
in the Setup CO2 menu, select Pump On.
Changing CO2 Alarms
This refers to CO2 specific alarms. See the Alarms section for general alarm information.
1In the Setup CO2 menu, select etCO2 High or imCO2 High and choose the upper alarm limit.
2Select etCO2 Low and choose the lower alarm limit.
Changing the Apnea Alarm Delay
This determines the time limit after which the monitor alarms if the patient stops breathing.
1In the Setu p CO 2 menu, select awRR .
2In Setup awRR menu, select Apnea Time .
3Choose the apnea alarm delay time.
WARNING Safety and effectiveness of the respiration measurement method in the detection of apnea, particularly
the apnea of prematurity and apnea of infancy, has not been established.
Prolonged delay: The selected apnea alarm delay may be prolonged by up to 17 seconds, if an apnea
occurs during the automatic zero process. This applies to the Microstream (M3015A) measurement
only.
Deriving Alarms From awRR
1In the Setu p CO 2 menu, select awRR.
2In the Setu p aw RR menu, select Alarms.
3Choose On to derive alarms from the airway respiration signal or Off to disable them.
Changing awRR Alarm Limits
1In the Setu p CO 2 menu, select awRR.
Agent
(M3014A
only)
In the Setup CO2 menu, select Age nt Co rr and select the concentration of the
anesthetic agent (between 0.0% and 20.0%). If an anesthetic agent is present in the
ventilation gas mixture, you must select the appropriate concentration.
Correction