Vital Signs Monitor User Manual Monitor Mode
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NOTE:
Creating new patient (admission or admission by barcode) and updating patient will clear
the history data in the monitor associated with the patient.
4.1.1 Patient Category
The patient category setting determines the algorithm which the monitor uses to process and
calculate some measurements, the safety limits that are applied for some measurements, and the
alarm limit ranges.
WARNING
Changing the patient category may change the relevant configuration (such as alarm
limits). Always check alarm limits to make sure that they are appropriate for your patient.
4.2 Quick Admit
If you do not have the time or information to fully admit a patient, you can use Quick Admit to
quickly admit a patient and complete the rest of the patient information later. To quickly admit a
patient, please:
1.
Select the shortcut key
on the screen directly, or
2.
Select
Menu
>
Patient Management
>
Quick Admit
, then a message is displayed to ask
the user to confirm to update patient.
3.
Click on
No
to cancel this operation; click on
Yes
to continue and the
Quick Admit
window
is displayed.
4.
Configure
Type
to the correct setting and click
Yes
to finish the quick patient admission
operation. If you want to quit the operation, click
No
.
4.3 Admit by Barcode
The barcode is based on patient MRN. To admit a patient by barcode,
In the interface of creating new patient
The patient information from barcode is directly updated to the interface. User can input
relevant information and click
confirm
to finish.
In other interfaces
If the monitor is connected with network server and
ADT Query
(in
User Maintain
) is also
set to on, the monitor will automatically inquire for patient information from the server via
MRN and update the information to the interface of creating new patient in which the items
are grey and can’t be modified (except bed No.), and user should click
confirm
to finish; if
network server is not connected, monitor can not inquire for patient information from the
server, and then monitor will update the patient information to the interface of creating new
patient according to barcode information, and user can input relevant information and click
confirm
to finish.
