Using Patient Cases and Patient ID Numbers
Portable Bedside Capnograph/Pulse Oximeter
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Note:
If you are not sure whether the monitor is currently monitoring a case, click the Patient Admit/Discharge
key to display the screen in which the
START CASE
button appears. The status of the
START
CASE
button can provide an indication of current status: when there is no case started, it will show
START CASE
, and, in the middle of a case, it will show
STOP CASE
.
6. To end a case when monitoring the patient is finished, press the Patient Admit/Discharge
key, and then
select
STOP CASE
. This marks the end of the data for that patient. Stopping a case will erase the Trend
Memory, and a warning that indicates
STOPPING THE CASE WILL ERASE TREND MEMORY;
PRESS "STOP CASE" AGAIN TO CONFIRM
will appear on the screen when
STOP CASE
is pressed.
If you want to transfer or print case or trend data, this
must
be done before the case is stopped. If you do not
want to stop the case, simply turn the knob to remove the question from the screen and continue the case. If
you do want to stop the case, click the control knob again.
7. If
STOP CASE
is not pressed when the user finishes monitoring and powers off the monitor, the case will
continue when the monitor is turned off and then on again. However, when the monitor is powered up again
in such a case, a warning will suggest that the user clear trend data and close the case (to clear patient ID)
before beginning a new monitoring session. This screen is seen in
Figure 34 - Trend Memory Message
on
page
. Oridion strongly suggests that you do so in order to avoid mis-identification of patient data.
However, if you intend to continue monitoring the same patient as previously, you may want to retain the
trend and case data.
Clicking
YES
and
CONFIRM?
Figure 34 - Trend Memory Message
on page
, will clear
the trend memory and close the current case, thus erasing all data in the monitor regarding that case.
WARNING:
The monitor can store only one case at a time. The trend memory includes only data for the
current case, and, when the case is stopped, the trend memory is erased.
The monitor automatically stores patient data and records the date and time for all events, whether or not the
patient case option is used. As long as the trend memory is not erased, this data remains stored in the monitor,
until the trend memory is full and the beginning of the trend data is overwritten by new data. (See
Chapter 10
for more information on trend capacity.) However, case printouts will only include
data recorded after the current case was started (even if the trend memory also includes data previous to the
current case). On the other hand, displayed trend data and trend printouts will include all data stored in the trend
memory.
