Fukuda Denshi LX-7230, Operation Manual

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Precautions about the Pacemaker
WARNING
 Minute ventilation rate-adaptive implantable pacemakers can
occasionally interact with certain cardiac monitoring and diagnostic
equipment, causing the pacemakers to pace at their maximum
programmed rate. The cardiac monitoring and diagnostic equipment
may possibly send wrong information.
If such event occurs, please disconnect the cardiac monitoring and
diagnostic equipment, or follow the procedures described in the
operation manual of the pacemaker.
(For more details, contact FUKUDA DENSHI personnel, your
institution’s professionals, or your pacemaker distributors.)
Reference
“Minute Ventilation Rate-Adaptive Pacemakers”
FDA alerts health professionals that minute ventilation rate-adaptive
implantable pacemakers can occasionally interact with certain cardiac
monitoring and diagnostic equipment, causing pacemakers to pace at their
maximum programmed rate.
[October 14, 1998 (Letter: www .fda.gov/cdrh/safety.html) – FDA]
 ECG meter may continue to count the pacemaker rate during
occurrences of cardiac arrest or arrhythmias. Do not rely entirely upon
the ECG meter alarms. Keep pacemaker patients under close
surveillance. Check this manual for disclosure of the pacemaker pulse
rejection capability of this instrument.
Precautions about the LX-7230
WARNING
 Do not connect cables not authorized by Fukuda Denshi to any I/O
connector. If done so by mistake, the LX-7230 cannot deliver its
maximum performance and may be damaged, resulting in a safety
hazard.
 Do not use this device with multiple patients simultaneously.
CAUTION
Do not pick up and/or swing the LX-7230 pulling/grabbing the probe
(sensor) or cord part. The cable could break or get disconnected from the
LX-7230. And it may hit people or damage other equipment around.
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