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Changing Alarm Limits
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When the alarm silence button is pressed, all audible alarms are silenced for 2 minutes. This includes both
alarms that were already sounding and also alarms that may occur during the 2 minute period. The 2-minute
alarm silence can be cancelled by a second press of the alarm silence button.
Visual alarms are still present. While the alarm silence period is active, a bell with crossed dashed lines through
it (
) is displayed on the screen. A crossed bell with solid lines symbol ( ) is shown if audio alarms are
permanently disabled in the institutional settings.
If permanent alarm silence has been set in the Institutional Defaults (by clicking
SYSTEM>SERVICE>Input
Service password>INST DEFAULTS>AUDIO ALARM VOLUME >AUDIO OFF , see Changing
Institutional Defaults on page 119 ), this alarm silence button ( ) does not set temporary alarm silence.
Instead, while permanent alarm silence has been set in the Institutional Defaults, this button does not affect
alarm silence; it will emit a wrong-key beep when pressed. When permanent alarm silence is set, the bell icon (
) will flash periodically.
WARNING: Do not silence the audible alarms until you verify that the patient is being monitored by
other means.
Changing Alarm Limits
Alarm limits differ for Adult/Pediatric (for adults and all pediatric patients) and Infant/Neonatal patients. Each
set of alarms is set separately.
Alarm limits can be changed for high priority patient alarms (urgent alarms) and caution alarms on the Alarm
Limits screen. The Alarm Limits screen is accessed from the Alarm Review screen. On the Alarm Limits
screen, the caution alarms can be enabled or disabled. (If caution alarms are disabled, the values in the Caution
Alarm column will be grayed out.) The limits can also be reset to Institutional Default settings, using the
DEFAULT RESET button on the screen.
Note: In high-altitude environments, EtCO
2
values may be lower than values observed at sea level, as
described by Dalton's law of partial pressures. When using the monitor in high-altitude environments, it
is advisable to consider adjusting EtCO
2
alarm settings accordingly.
Figure 30 - Alarm Limits Screen