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Priorities of Physiological and Technical Alarms
The Camino ICP Monitor includes one medium priority physiological alarm that gets activated if a patient’s Mean
ICP value exceeds the user specified limit for more than 5 seconds; there are no other physiological alarms. If two or
more error conditions occur simultaneously that can activate a physiological alarm and a technical alarm, the
physiological alarm will always take precedence (unless the technical alarm is caused by an irreversible system
failure, which results in the monitor being unusable. The remaining technical alarms will only become
announced after the physiological alarm is resolved.
How the Monitor Prioritizes Between Two Technical Alarms
If two or more error conditions of the same clinical priority occur simultaneously that can activate different
technical alarms, the Camino ICP Monitor prioritizes which alarm it activates based on how the alarm condition
affects the safety of the patient or stability of the equipment. Note that a technical alarm with a higher priority will
always be activated over a technical alarm with a lower priority; a lower priority alarm will not be announced until
the higher priority alarm is resolved.