Philips IntelliVue Series, Installation And Service Manual

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Network Design
Site Planning and Preparation
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Large ICU
The next example is a large, 20-bed ICU with intensive monitoring requirements for all
patients and the ability to transfer up to 4 patients to telemetry. See
Figure 4-3
.
Equipment required for this installation is the following:
• 20 beds, each with a hardwired bedside patient monitor
• 4 telemetry monitors on one telemetry mainframe
• 2 Information Centers, each with 12 patient (Option #A12) and full alarm and wave
review capability
• 1 System Communications Controller
The hardwired bedside and telemetry monitors are assigned to specific Information Centers.
In
Figure 4-3
, 10 bedside and 2 telemetry monitors are assigned to Information Center #1 and
10 bedside and 2 telemetry monitors to Information Center #2, although other combinations
are possible.
This Patient Care Network can be expanded to 32 patients by adding a 4 patient upgrade
Option #C44 to each Information Center. For more than 24 patient monitors (har
telemetry), however, a second SCC is required. Additional telemetry monitoring capability
can also be obtained by adding telemetry monitors and mainframes to the SCCs.
Figure 4-3 Large, 20-Bed ICU Patient Care Network
Note Assignment of hardwired monitor s to specific Information Centers is recommended because
data for patients are stored on specific Information Centers and patients cannot be transferred
between Information Centers.
Bed1
Information Center
SCC
(#A12)
Bed1-Bed10
Tel1, Tel2
Tel1
Tel4
(#A12)
Bed11-Bed20
Tel3, Tel4
Bed20
Information Center