Philips V200 manual Alert Messages, Alarm Volume Control

Chapter 9

Alarms

Alarm Volume Control

Alert Messages

Under the left hand bottom edge of the front panel is a partially exposed round control that enables you to control the volume of audible alarms (Figure 9-3).

Alarm Volume

Control Knob

Figure 9-3: Alarm Volume Control

The volume control can be adjusted between a minimum and maximum setting to suit the particular clinical situation.

When the ventilator detects an alarm condition, it presents an Alert insert below the Patient Data box in the middle of the screen.

While the alarm is active (i.e. visual and audible alarms are still present), the message in the Alert insert appears in bold-faced type. Once the alarm condition has been corrected, the message automatically switches to regular face type. Pressing ALARM RESET clears alarm messages.

When the operator presses the ALARM RESET button (described above), the alarm messages disappear from the alert window.

When the ventilator detects more than three alarm conditions, the three highest priority alert messages will be displayed.

Alert messages, along with the corresponding alarm descriptions, are listed in Table 9-1: “Alarm Alert Messages”.

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