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Chapter 4: Installation and Setup
Monitoring via Telemetry
This section provides a brief overview of telemetry monitoring procedures. Refer to the “Maternal/Fetal
Monitoring Operator’s Manual” for patient application information. Also refer to your monitor’s operator manual.
Suggestions for Ambulatory Monitoring
IMPORTANT :
DESIGNATED AREAS—Show the patient the areas that are within signal range and where signal reception is
clear. The designated area is determined at the time of installation.
Following are the suggestions for ambulatory monitoring:
1. Instruct the patient to wear the transmitter with the enclosure faced towards the receiver when possible.
2. Adjust the carrying strap to a comfortable length.
3. Encourage the patient to walk in a smooth, gliding motion. It is preferable to slide feet instead of moving
quickly which may cause bouncing and artifact.
4. Instruct the patient, following each fetal movement, to listen via the headset or speaker, for continued
“pickup” of fetal heart rate tones.
NOTE
: Transducers with short cables are available. Contact your Information Technologies Sales representative
Perform the following precautionary measures during ambulatory monitoring:
Illustration
Description
1. Make sure the transducer cables are not hanging
loosely, the patient is in danger of tripping over
the cables.