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Responding to Active Alarms
9650-001355-01 Rev. M
X Series Operator’s Guide
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Responding to Active Alarms
When a patient alarm is triggered and the alarm tone sounds:
1. Check the patient and provide appropriate care.
2.
Press the
Alarm Pause/Reset
(
) button on the X Series unit’s front panel to acknowledge
the alarm and briefly pause (silence) the alarm (90 seconds).
3.
After caring for the patient, check that the appropriate alarms are set (for more information
about setting alarms, see appropriate monitoring chapters later in this manual).
Note:
Pressing the
Alarm Pause/Reset
(
) button pauses (silences) the alarm tone briefly
for all active alarms. If the patient’s vital signs measurements trigger another, different
alarm, the patient alarm tone will sound, even if the first pause (silence) period hasn’t
expired.
Re-enabling an Alarm
To re-enable an alarm before the alarm pause (silence) period has expired, press the
Alarm
Pause/Reset
(
) button.
Warning!
•
Do not pause (silence) the audible alarm if patient safety may be compromised.
•
Do not adjust alarm signal volume lower than the ambient noise level if this may impede
operator recognition of alarm signals.
Latching Alarms
High priority patient alarms can be configured to be latching or non-latching (default). When
alarms are configured to be latching, alarm indicators (sound, message, color) remain whether
or not the condition is present. Life Threatening Rhythm Alarms (LTA) are always latching.
Latched alarms must be acknowledged even if the condition no longer exists. Latching alarms
are useful in situations where the patient may not be continuously attended by the clinical
operator as they make you aware of patient alarm conditions whether or not they are still
occurring.
When alarms are configured as non-latching alarm indicators clear when the alarm condition
ends, whether or not the alarm was Paused (Silenced).
Latching alarms are enabled or disabled (default) in the
Setup>Supervisor>Alarms>General>menu.
Summary of Contents for X Series
Page 1: ...Includes Real CPR Help and See Thru CPR X Series Operator s Guide 9650 001355 01 Rev M...
Page 64: ...Chapter 2 Product Overview 2 24 www zoll com 9650 001355 01 Rev M...
Page 74: ...Chapter 3 Monitoring Overview 3 10 www zoll com 9650 001355 01 Rev M...
Page 80: ...Chapter 4 Trends 4 6 www zoll com 9650 001355 01 Rev M...
Page 90: ...Chapter 5 Alarms 5 10 www zoll com 9650 001355 01 Rev M...
Page 110: ...Chapter 7 Monitoring Respiration Resp and Heart Rate HR 7 10 www zoll com 9650 001355 01 Rev M...
Page 126: ...Chapter 8 Monitoring Non Invasive Blood Pressure NIBP 8 16 www zoll com 9650 001355 01 Rev M...
Page 156: ...Chapter 10 Pulse CO Oximetry SpO2 10 18 www zoll com 9650 001355 01 Rev M...
Page 166: ...Chapter 11 Monitoring Invasive Pressures IBP 11 10 www zoll com 9650 001355 01 Rev M...
Page 198: ...Chapter 14 12 Lead ECG Interpretive Analysis 14 16 www zoll com 9650 001355 01 Rev M...
Page 218: ...Chapter 16 Advisory Defibrillation 16 6 www zoll com 9650 001355 01 Rev M...
Page 224: ...Chapter 17 Analysis CPR Protocol Defibrillation 17 6 www zoll com 9650 001355 01 Rev M...
Page 234: ...Chapter 18 External Pacing 18 10 www zoll com 9650 001355 01 Rev M...
Page 242: ...Chapter 19 Real CPR Help 19 8 www zoll com 9650 001355 01 Rev M...
Page 254: ...Chapter 21 Patient Data 21 6 www zoll com 9650 001355 01 Rev M...
Page 338: ...Specifications A 38 www zoll com 9650 001355 01 Rev M...