Mindray VS-900, Operator'S Manual

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6.6 Pausing Alarms
You can temporarily disable alarm indicators by pressing and holding hardkey on
the panel for above 2 seconds.
When alarms are paused,
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The alarms pause symbol and the remaining alarm pause time is displayed
in Alarm Information area.

For physiological alarms, no alarm indication is shown. New physiological alarm
will not be presented.

For technical alarms, alarm sounds are paused, but alarm lamps and alarm
messages remain presented.
The default alarm pause time is 2 minutes. When the alarm pause time expires, or the low
battery alarm occurs, the alarm paused status is automatically deactivated. You can also
cancel the alarm paused status by pressing and holding the hardkey for more than
2 seconds.
6.7 Switching Off Alarm Sound
When alarm volume is set to 0, the alarm sound is turned off. In audio alarm off status,
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The Audio Off symbol is displayed.
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Audio indication of all alarms is suspended.
You can cancel the alarm sound off status by setting alarm volume to a value from 1 to 10.
WARNING

Pausing or switching off alarms may result in a hazard to the patient. Please be
very careful.
6.8 Resetting Alarms
By pressing the hardkey, you can reset the alarm system to acknowledging the
on-going alarms and enable the alarm system to respond to a subsequent alarm
condition.
For physiological alarms, except the NIBP-related alarms, when the alarm system is reset:

The alarm sound is silenced.
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A √ appears before the alarm message, indicating that the alarm is
acknowledged.