Philips V26CT manual Silencing and Resetting Alarms, Suspended Alarms during Arrhythmia Monitoring

Alarm Functions

Alarm Display

Suspended Alarms during Arrhythmia Monitoring

Silencing and Resetting Alarms

If all the alarms have been turned off using the Suspend Alarms

softkey or the Suspend hardkey, they can all be turned back on by pressing the SwitchOn Alarms softkey or the Suspend hardkey.

While the alarms are suspended (permanently or for 1, 2 or 3 minutes), INOP messages continue to be displayed but alarm messages, lamps and alarm tones are not active. The nurse call relay is inactive.

Notes—

•While Arrhythmia is assigned, the central Arrhythmia Computer takes over the ECG/HR alarms.

•Suspending Alarms switches off all alarms, including Arrhythmia alarms.

•If Arrhythmia is assigned and alarms are suspended, the ECG/HR alarms are switched off. The ON/OFF Softkey in the Alarm Limits and ECG Adjust Alarms Task Windows will not be available (inactive softkey). The ECG/HR alarm ON/OFF capability can only be reactivated by switching the main Alarms on, or unassigning Arrhythmia.

If an alarm occurs you can silence it by pressing the Silence/Reset

key. This will silence ALL alarms that are occurring at that moment. The alarm messages numeric will continue to blink.

You can configure your system on installation to have all latching or all non-latching alarms or to have visual alarms latching and audible alarms non-latching. You can also configure the alarm reminder function to be on or off.

Note—We recommend that you configure latching alarms for your monitor for Intensive Care use. All monitors within a unit should have the same alarm configuration!

Note—Audible alarm indications broadcast over the Philips monitoring network (SDN) are always treated like visual alarms on the central station or remote systems (even if the bedside monitor is configured differently).

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