72 Alarms
Vivo 40 clinician’s manual
Doc. 003886 En-Us A-1e
Low Breath Rate Alarm (Apnea alarm)
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Definition
A low breath rate alarm will be given when the
delivered breath rate is less than the low breath
rate alarm limit for 15 seconds.
Possible cause
• Setting is higher than breath rate.
• The patient doesn’t trigger any breaths.
• Decrease of the patient’s spontaneous breath-
ing.
Setting
Parameter: Low breath rate
Min:
Max:
Resolution:
4 BPM
50 BPM
1 BPM
Ventilator action
The Vivo 40 will continue to give breaths with the
same settings.
Indication
The alarm is given audibly with a tone and visibly
by the yellow alarm LED and a display message.