Smiths Medical Oxi-Pulse 30, Home Use Operation Manual

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Chapter 6: Alarms
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High Priority Alarms
A high priority alarm warns of an abnormal patient condition.
A high priority alarm is activated when:
The patient’s SpO •
2
reading matches or exceeds the SpO
2
alarm range.
The patient’s pulse rate reading matches or exceeds the pulse rate alarm range. •
There is a lost pulse condition (the sensor no longer detects a pulse while a finger is •
inserted in the sensor, when a pulse was previously detected).
During a high priority alarm:
The high priority alarm tone sounds, if not silenced. The high priority alarm tone consists of •
two bursts of five tones each, repeated every 7 seconds.
The numeric display of each exceeded parameter flashes twice per second. •
During a lost pulse condition, pulse rate and SpO
2
displays will flash “ -- ”.
The Alarm Indicator flashes red twice per second. •
Each time new trend data is saved it is marked with an alarm active flag. •
The alarm condition is sent to the data output port. •
Alarms active at the time of a real time data output are indicated on the optional WW1026 •
thermal printer.
nOTe: both the SpO
2
and pulse rate numbers will flash if both readings are equal to or
exceed their alarm range.
nOTe: The alarm actions occur for each violated alarm, even if more than one alarm is
violated at the same time.