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

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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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