Mindray iMEC8 Vet, Operator'S Manual

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7.2 Alarm Levels
By severity, the monitor’s alarms can be classified into three categories: high level, medium level and low level.
Physiological alarms Technical alarms
High level
Indicate that your patient is in a life
threatening situation, such as Asystole,
Vfib/Vtac and so forth, and an
emergency treatment is demanded. Indicate a severe device malfunction or an improper operation,
which could make it possible that the monitor cannot detect
critical patient status and thus threaten the patient’s life, such as
low battery.
Medium
level
Indicate that your patient’s vital signs
appear abnormal and an immediate
treatment is required. Indicate a device malfunction or an improper operation, which
may not threaten the patient’s life but may compromise the
monitoring of vital physiological parameters.
Low level
Indicate that you patient’s vital signs
appear abnormal and an immediate
treatment may be required. Indicate a device malfunction or an improper operation, which
may compromise a certain monitoring function but will not
threaten the patient’s life.
7.3 Alarm Indicators
When an alarm occurs, the monitor will indicate it to the user through visual or audible alarm indications.
 Alarm lamp
 Alarm message
 Flashing numeric

Audible alarm tones
7.3.1 Alarm Lamp
If a technical alarm or physiological alarm occurs, the alarm lamp will flash. The flashing color and frequency match the
alarm level as follows:

High level alarms: the lamp quickly flashes red.

Medium level alarms: the lamp slowly flashes yellow.

Low level alarms: the lamp turns yellow without flashing.
7.3.2 Alarm Message
When an alarm occurs, an alarm message will appear in the technical or physiological alarm area. For physiological
alarms, the asterisk symbols (*) before the alarm message match the alarm level as follows:

High level alarms: ***

Medium level alarms: **

Low level alarms: *
Additionally, the alarm message uses different background colors to match the alarm level:
 High level alarms: red
 Medium level alarms: yellow

Low level alarms: yellow
You can view the alarm messages by selecting the physiological or technical alarm area.