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Instructions for use – Infinity Acute Care System – Monitoring Applications VG6.n
M540 and Cockpit communication
Communication between the M540 and the Cockpit
starts as soon as the M540 is docked in the M500
(see page 93). The M540 acquires physiological
signals from the patient and relays them to the
Cockpit for display. The Cockpit then makes the
patient data available to the Infinity network.
When the M540 is docked, the Cockpit assumes
the annunciation of all acoustic alarm signals.
However, alarms are always reported optically at
the Cockpit
and
at the M540. When the M540 is
undocked for transport, it provides acoustic alarm
signals. In addition, the ICS can assume the
annunciation of acoustic alarm signals for an M540
on wireless transport.
The only exceptions are Cockpit-specific alarm
messages such as
External device disconnected
for
which
the M540 does not report any acoustic
and optical alarm signals.
When the M540 is docked, any changes to the
patient setup such as alarm limits made on the
Cockpit are automatically transferred to the M540
(and vice versa).
Docking the M540
As soon as the user docks the M540 in the M500,
the following happens at the Cockpit:
– The message
Connecting to M540
appears in
the center of the Cockpit screen.
– The Cockpit makes the data of the M540
available to the Infinity network.
Docking to the same Cockpit
If the user undocks an M540 from a Cockpit and
later docks the M540 to the same Cockpit, the data
collection continues seamlessly. The Cockpit
automatically retrieves any data the M540 collected
while on patient transport and merges it with the
data set for that patient.
NOTE
For alarms to also sound at the M540 when it is
docked, select the alarm volume at the M540
manually. For information, refer to the M540
instructions for use.
NOTE
If the M540 cannot communicate with the Cockpit,
the Cockpit sounds an alarm. In addition, an
alarm indicating a loss of communication is
broadcast over the network to the Infinity
CentralStation (ICS) provided the patient is
admitted there. The M540 continues to monitor
the patient.
NOTE
If the user docks an M540 with a patient category
that differs from the one selected on the Cockpit,
the patient category setting of the Cockpit
changes to match the one of the M540.
