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9.
TROUBLESHOOTING
This section presents potential AURA™ Monitor operational issues and
recommended solutions. Contact Branchpoint Technologies using the
information on the back cover of this manual for additional assistance.
TROUBLE CONNECTING WITH THE AURA™ SENSOR
OR POOR QUALITY
OF SERVICE
•
The AURA™ Monitor will display the messages: “Sensor Connection Lost,”
“Reposition Antenna, Check Connections,” or “Sensor Error” to indicate an
AURA
TM
Sensor connection issue.
•
Reposition the AURA
TM
Antenna and check connections until a good
connection is re-
established between the AURA™ Sensor and AURA™
Monitor.
NOTE:
If the AURA™ Monitor cannot connect to an AURA
TM
Sensor, try
repositioning the AURA
TM
Antenna.
TROUBLE CONNECTING WITH THE AURA™ DATA RECEIVER OR POOR
QUALITY OF SERVICE
•
The AURA
TM
Monitor will state “No Receivers Found” if it does not find any
receivers ready for connection. In this case, verify that no other AURA
TM
Monitor is already connected to the target AURA
TM
Data Receiver.
•
The AURA™ Monitor will display the words “Pairing Failed,” “Receiver Error,”
or “Connect Receiver” to indicate failure to connect with a selected
AURA
TM
Data Receiver. If the AURA
TM
Monitor fails to communicate with the AURA
TM
Data Receiver or determines there is a poor Quality of Service, it will
automatically disconnect from the AURA
TM
Data Receiver.
•
Verify there are no potential sources of interference in close proximity to
the AURA™ Monitor or
AURA
TM
Data Receiver.
•
Check the connection of the AURA
TM
Data Receiver to the patient monitor.
•
After verification, reset the AURA™
Monitor.
POINT MEASUREMENT MODE
In point measurement mode, the patient monitor displays ICP as a series of
flat line values (10 to 30 seconds at each consecutive averaged value) instead
of an ICP waveform. The point measurement mode allows the ICP monitoring
system to operate in a low power state. When in this mode, try re-positioning
the AURA
TM
Antenna for better alignment with the AURA
TM
Sensor. The system
will automatically transition out of point measurement mode when the issue is
resolved.
ALARMS
Table 5 lists all possible alarms that can be displayed to the User based on their
significance, LED indicator status, and the audio alarm priority.
If a medium priority and a low priority alarm are active at the same time, the
AURA
TM
Monitor will only sound the medium alarm.
If two or more medium alarms are active at the same time, the AURA
TM
Monitor will cycle through all of them and display the alarm text for each
alarm as shown in Table 5.
