Philips IntelliVue Series, Installation And Service Manual

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Network Design
4-8
Site Planning and Preparation
A Patient Care Network is designed from the following general components:
• patient monitors for collecting patient monitoring data
• CareNet (Serial Distribution Network and Serial Communications Controller) for
transmitting and managing patient data among monitors and central stations
• wireless access points for receiving monitoring data from wireless Patient Monitors
• central monitoring stations for displaying patient monitoring data
• review stations for viewing real-time and stored patient data
• database server for receiving, storing, and retransmitting monitoring data from
multiple patients
• Clinical Network for interconnecting multiple central monitoring and review stations
and the database server
• Printers for printing patient data and configuration settings
Following is a brief description of the key capabilities of these components that must be
considered when designing a Patient Care Network to meet specific clinical monitoring
requirements.
Patient Monitors Patient monitors can be connected to the Clinical Network in one of two ways -- via the
CareNet (SDN/PCC), either hardwired or telemetry, and directly, either wired or wireless.
Each type of monitor can monitor only
1 patient .
CareNet monitors can be:
Hardwired Monitors can be the Philips Component Monitoring System (CMS) with
extensive monitoring capability, the Philips 24 patient monitor with more limited
monitoring capability, or the older Compact Configured Monitor.
Telemetry Monitors can be Philips Telemetry system or the older model Digital UHF
Telemetry system. Each telemetry mainframe can accommodate up to 8 telemetry
monitors , 1 per patient.
Network monitors can be:
Hardwired M3/M4 Monitors that connect directly to a Network switch.
Wireless M3/M4 monitors that transmit patient monitoring data to a Wireless Access
Point.
Hardwired IntelliVue Patient Monitors that connect directly to a Network switch.
Wireless IntelliVue Patient monitors that transmit patient monitoring data to a
Wireless Access Point.
CareNet To display data from multiple patient monitors on a central monitoring station, the monitors
can be connected to the
CareNet [Serial Distribution Network (SDN) and Philips
Communications Controller (PCC)]. The PCC is the CareNet switch, which receives,