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How the Monitor Prioritizes the Alarms
The Camino ICP Monitor assigns each error condition that may activate a physiological or technical alarm type
with a range of clinical priorities between medium and low. These priorities are determined by two factors:
• The potential harm that may occur to the patient
• How quickly the onset of potential harm may occur if the user fails to respond to the cause of the alarm.
Clinical priority Potential harm if alarm is
ignored
Timeframe for potential harm
to occur
Medium Reversible injury Prompt
Low Reversible injury Delayed
Audio and Visual Indicators for Medium and Low Priority Alarms
Depending on the clinical priority of the error condition that is causing the alarm, the Camino ICP Monitor
activates audio and visual indicators to alert the user of the condition:
Clinical
Priority
Audio Indicators Visual Indicators
Medium
• Sounds an alarm containing a burst
of three pulses, with a pulse separation
of 180 milliseconds and a burst
separation of 3 seconds.
• The volume of each alarm pulse
measures a sound pressure of 70 dB.
• A message will appear on the status bar
that identifies the error
• If a system failure occurs, a standalone
message window will appear that
identifies an error code and
description of the failure
• The borders surrounding specific symbols
(e.g, alarm, battery) on the touch screen
will flash yellow
• For some error conditions, the patient
values will flash yellow
Low
• Sounds an alarm containing a single
pulse, with a burst separation of
16seconds.
• The volume of the single alarm pulse
measures a sound pressure of 69 dB.
• A message will appear on the status bar
that identifies the error.
• The patient values will appear yellow
(not flashing)
• For battery-related errors, the battery
symbol indicates the battery has no
remaining charge.
For specific information on which audio/visual indicators occur for each medium priority and low priority alarm
type, see Responding to the Physiological Alarm (ICP above alarm limit) and Responding to Technical Alarms in
Chapter 5.