Mindray iMEC8 Vet, Operator'S Manual

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4-1
4
Managing Patients
4.1 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 that is not admitted yet. However, it is recommended that you fully admit a patient so that you can
clearly identify your patient, on recordings, reports and networking devices.
To admit a patient:
1. Select the [ Patient Setup ] QuickKey, or [ Main Menu ]
→
[ Patient Setup >> ].
2. Select [
Discharge Patient
] to clear any previous patient data. If you do not erase data from the previous patient,
the new patient’s data will be saved into the data of the previous patient. The monitor makes no distinction
between the old and the new patient data.
3. If the [ Discharge Patient ] button appears dimmed, directly select [ Admit Patient ] and then select:

[
Yes
] to apply the data saved in the monitor to the new patient, or

[
No
] to clear the data saved in the monitor.
4. In the [
Patient Demographics
] menu, enter the demographic details, of which:

[
Patient Cat.
] determines the way your monitor processes and calculates some measurements, and what
safety and alarm limits are applied for your patient.

[ Paced ] determines whether to show pace pulse marks on the ECG waveform. When the [ Paced ] is set to [ No ],
pace pulse marks are not shown in the ECG waveform.
5. Select [
Ok
].
WARNING

[Patient Cat.] and [Paced] will always contain a value, regardless of whether the patient is fully admitted or
not. If you do not specify settings for these fields, the monitor uses the default settings from the current
configuration, which might not be correct for your patient.

For paced patients, you must set [Paced] to [Yes]. If it is incorrectly set to [No], the monitor could mistake a
pace pulse for a QRS and fail to alarm when the ECG signal is too weak.

For non-paced patients, you must set [Paced] to [No].