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Managing Patients

Use the Patient Demographics window and its associated pop-up keys to admit, discharge, and transfer (ADT) patients.

All patient demographic and ADT information is shared between the patient monitor and the Information Center, for example, patients admitted to the monitor are automatically admitted to a connected Information Center.

Admitting a Patient

The monitor displays physiological data and stores it in the trends as soon as a patient is connected. This lets you monitor a patient who is not yet admitted. It is however important to admit patients properly so that you can identify your patient on recordings, reports, and networked devices.

During admission you enter data that the monitor needs for safe and accurate operation. For example, the patient category setting determines the algorithm the monitor uses to process and calculate some measurements, the safety limits that apply for some measurements, and the alarm limit ranges.

To admit a patient,

Patient Demographics

 

 

1 Select the patient name field or select the

Last Name

 

Admit/Dischrge SmartKey to open the

First Name

 

Patient Demographics window.

MRN

 

2 Clear any previous patient data by selecting

Patient Cat.

Adult

the Dischrge Patient or End Case

Paced

No

pop-up key and then Confirm.

Height

 

If you do not discharge the previous patient,

Weight

 

BSA (D)

 

you will not be able to distinguish data from

 

Date of Birth

 

the previous and current patients, for

 

Age

 

example, in the trend database.

 

Gender

 

3 Select Admit Patient.

 

Notes (1):

 

 

 

4 Enter the patient information: select each

Notes (2):

 

field and use the on-screen keyboard or

 

 

choose from the pop-up list of alternatives to

 

 

input information. If a conventional

keyboard or a barcode scanner is connected to the monitor you can use this to enter patient information.

Last name: Enter the patient’s last name (family name), for example Smith.

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Philips MP20/30, MP60/70/80/90, MP40/50 manual Managing Patients, Admitting a Patient

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