Philips V24CT, V26CT manual Multiple Incoming Alarms

Show Next Wave

Philips Patient Care System

The Alarm Bed Task Window shows the bed label of the other bed in alarm, the primary wave, up to 10 numerics of the parameters being monitored, INOP and ALARM messages in a rotating field. The alarm parameter numeric will be blinking.

If the alarm at the other bed has been silenced, the message SILENCED appears below the wave. If your monitor is configured to receive silenced alarms the Alarm Bed Task Window remains on the display; if your monitor is configured not to receive silenced alarms the Alarm Bed Task Window is removed from the display.

An arrow next to the bed label in the Task Window means that there are one or more other beds in the Other Patients group with an unacknowledged alarm. (See next page).

Multiple Incoming Alarms

If there are one or more beds with unacknowledged alarms, superseded by an actual displayed alarm, there is an arrow in front of the bed label. The unacknowledged alarms are stacked and the beds are viewed in sequence as the alarms arrived. If alarms arrive simultaneously they are viewed with the lowest bed number first. Each bed in alarm is automatically displayed for 5 seconds. When all the alarm beds have been displayed, the last bed stays on the display and the softkeys

and Clear Alarm Bed become active.

When you have viewed the primary wave for that patient you can press the softkey Show Next Wave to view the next waveform for that patient.

An arrow next to the bed number signifies that there are one or more beds with unacknowledged alarms in the Other Patients group.

Press the softkey Clear Alarm Bed . This:

•Acknowledges the alarm of the bed in your own Other Patients Task Window and automatically displays the next alarm bed from the alarm stack.

•If there is no arrow next to the bed number, it automatically takes you out of the automatic alarm display.

Note—When an alarm has been acknowledged. the acknowledged bed no longer appears in your Other Bed Alarm stack. It is NOT removed from

Other Patients

Other Patients 4-5