Alarm system
CNAP
®
Monitor 500
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Alarm system
The alarm system of the CNAP
®
Monitor 500 distinguishes between two alarm levels: physiological
alarms (yellow) and technical malfunction alarms (cyan).
•
MEDIUM PRIORITY: **
Yellow alarms are physiological alarms of medium priority (e.g. exceeding the upper or falling
below the lower limit for systolic blood pressure).
•
LOW PRIORITY: *
Technical malfunction alarms indicate that the CNAP
®
Monitor 500 is unable to take a measure-
ment or to reliably detect possible alarm conditions. Instead of numeric values, the
Parame-
ter frame
displays three stars
(***)
, accompanied by an acoustic signal which has to be con-
firmed by the operator (see chapter 6.3.1 – Acknowledgement of alarms). Depending on the in-
dicated malfunction, the operator may have to take a measure (e.g. replace a defective CNAP
®
double finger cuff).
NOTE:
•
The CNAP
®
Monitor 500 has no other than the mentioned 2 alarm levels: physiologi-
cal alarms (yellow) and technical malfunction alarms (cyan).
•
Physiological alarms are deleted:
- by
Discharge
,
- by stopping the measurement using
Start/Stop
,
- by the next NBP measurement.
•
Physiological alarms triggered by a single NBP measurement will be saved until the
next NBP measurement.
STOP:
If several alarms are activated at the same time:
•
The alarm signals will be displayed alternately in intervals of 5 seconds in the
Pa-
rameter frame
,
•
Physiological alarms and technical malfunction alarms will be displayed one after the
other in their order of appearance,
•
The physiological alarm with the highest priority will be accompanied by an acoustic
signal,
•
New alarms and technical malfunction alarms will be displayed immediately.
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Manufactured by CNSystems AG
