Medivance ARCTIC SUN 5000, Operator'S Manual

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• Using the Rewarm Patient From temperature, the Rewarm Patient To
temperature and the rewarming rate settings, the system will calculate
and display the rewarming duration and the date/time at which the the
patient will reach the final rewarming target temperature.
• Press the Save button to save the new settings and close the Rewarm
Patient-Adjust window.
3. Initiate Patient Cooling
• Press Start , in the Cool Patient window to initiate therapy. You will hear
a tone and then a voice stating “Therapy Started”. Additionally, the Cool
Patient window and the
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icon will blink, indicating that therapy is in progress.
4. Initiate Patient Rewarming
• Upon completion of the cooling phase, there are two options for initia-
tion of patient rewarming, either Automatically or Manually, depending
on the
Rewarming Begins setting in Hypothermia Settings .
• If Rewarming Begins is set to Automatically , the rewarming process
starts automatically when the Cool Patient therapy is complete and the
duration reaches zero.
• If Rewarming Begins is set to Manually , the rewarming process starts
when the Start button is pressed in the Rewarm Patient window. The
cooling process will continue until the Rewarm Patient Start button is
pressed. An Alert will occur when the Cool Patient duration reaches
zero.
End Therapy
• From the Normothermia therapy or Hypothermia therapy screen, press
the Stop button to terminate water circulation to the pads.
• Press the Empty Pads button, and follow the instructions to purge the
pads of water.
• Disconnect the pads from the Fluid Delivery Line.
• Slowly and carefully remove pads from the patient skin.
• Discard the used pads in accordance with hospital procedures for
medical waste.
• Press the power switch Off .
If power is lost while the power switch is in the On position, an audible alert
will be issued until it is switched Off. This alerts the user that the treatment
may have been accidentally stopped.
Chapter 3 – Normothermia Settings
Normothermia Settings
Use the Normothermia Settings screen to view the current settings and
modify the settings for the following parameters. To modify any parameter
setting, press the
Adjust button to the right of the parameter.
Normothermia Settings screen parameters:
Therapy Settings
• Timer Begins
Water Temperature Settings
• Pre-Condition Water
• Manual Control
• High Water Limit
• Low Water Limit
Patient Temperature Settings
• High Patient Alert
• Low Patient Alert
• Control
Strategy
Display Settings
• Temperature Units
• Temperature Units Adjust
• Patient Temp 2
• Speaker
Volume
To access the Normothermia Settings screen:
1) Press Adjust on the Control Patient window.
2) Press the More button on the Control Patient Adjust window.
3) The Normothermia Settings screen will be displayed.
4) To save the new settings as the current patient therapy settings, press
the Close button. For instructions on saving the settings as the system
defaults, see Advanced Setup .
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