Philips V24CT, V26CT manual Beat Label Meaning

Using Philips Patient Care System with an Arrhythmia Computer

If arrhythmia monitoring for your system is on, the heart-rate on your screen is that calculated by the arrhythmia computer. Alarm messages from the arrhythmia computer are also displayed. Within the ECG channel, arrhythmia information is displayed on the rhythm and abnormal beat status of the patient. In the “Delayed ArrhWave” Task Window the delayed ECG arrhythmia waveform displays a beat label with each QRS complex.

See the following table for information on beat labels.

Beat Label	Meaning
A	Artifact beat
N	Normal beat
S	Superventricular beat
V	Ventricular ectopic beat
M	Missing beat
?	Questionable beat
P	Paced beat
'	Pace pulse (tick mark)
L	Learning ECG pattern
U	Unknown, since pace learning is incomplete

If arrhythmia is assigned, and an arrhythmia alarm occurs, the Arrhythmia Validation Task Window will appear automatically on the status display unless you turn it off under Trends/Calcs.

Other Patients

Other Patients 4-9