Patient Monitor User Manual Managing Patients
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Chapter 7 Managing Patients
7.1 Confirming a Patient
After the user switches the monitor on, the monitor will prompt “
Continue monitoring the
current patient or admit new patient?
”. Select
Current Patient
to use the current
configuration; Select
New Patient
to admit new patient.
NOTE:
If the user does not make a selection within 1 minute,
Current Patient
is selected by
default.
7.2 Admitting a Patient
The monitor displays physiological data and stores it in the trends as soon as a patient is
connected. This allows you to monitor a patient who is not yet admitted. It is however important
to admit patients properly so that you can identify your patient on recordings, reports, and
networked devices.
During admission you enter data that the monitor needs for safe and accurate operation. For
example, the patient category setting determines the algorithm the monitor uses to process and
calculate some measurements, the safety limits that are applied for some measurements, and the
alarm limit ranges.
To admit a patient, please:
1.
Select the
Admission
key on the screen or.
2.
Select
Menu
>
Patient Setup
>
New Patient
, then a message is displayed to ask the user to
confirm to update patient.
3.
Click on
No
to cancel this operation; click on
Yes
, the
Patient Info
window is displayed.
4.
Enter the patient information:
MRN
: Enter the patient’s medical record number.
Last Name
: Enter the patient’s last name (family name).
First Name
: Enter the patient’s first name.
Bed No
.: Supports up to 8 characters. Chinese, English, Russian, numbers and special
characters can be input.
Doctor
: Enter the attending doctor for the patient.
Gender
:
Male
,
Female
and
N/A
.
Type
: Choose the patient type, either
Adult
,
Pediat
, or
Neonat
.
BloodType
:
N/A
,
A
,
B
,
AB
and
O
.
Pace
: Choose
On
or
Off
(You must select
On
if your patient has a pacemaker).
Date of Birth
: Enter the patient’s date of birth.
Date of Admission
: Enter the patient’s date of admission.
