• ALARM VOL: which has 7 selections: 1~7.
• ALM REC TIME: which has three selections: 8S, 16S, 32S.
• ALM PAUSE TIME: refers to the alarm suspension time span, which has three selections: 1MIN, 2MIN,
3MIN.
• ALM TYPE:UNLATCH.UNLATCH refers to the situation that once the alarm condition is discharged, the
alarm will disappear automatically.
• KEY VOL:there are 8 options:off,1~7.
4.2 Alarm Verification during Power on
During the monitor power on, audible and visual alarm capability will be tested by the system.
Every time when the monitor powers on, alarm beeps "DO-", and the LED indicator on the display device
flashes orange once. If no beeps heard or no alarm indicator flashing viewed, do not use this device to
monitor any patient, and notify Customer Service Center.
4.3 Alarm Cause
Alarm occurs when:
1.Physiological alarm is evoked;
2. Alarm for error of the system (technical alarm) is evoked;
3. General alert occurs.
• A. Conditions that activate the parameter alarms:
When the measurement value exceeds the alarm limit and the alarm is set to"ON". Alarm will not activate if
the alarm is set to "OFF".
• B. Conditions that activate the system alarms (technical alarm):
Upon the system error, the monitor prompts alarm immediately and proceeds corresponding remedy, stops
all monitoring and eliminates the final results in order to avoid faulted treatment. If more than one error
occur, they will be displayed by turns.
• C. General alert
In some circumstances, alerts will behave as physiological alarm but in normal sense, we don't regard
them as real patient health related items.
Note
When the sensor or probes are disconnected with the monitor, the monitor will give general prompt
information. When the sensors or probes are intentionally disconnected by the operator because of
inappropriate operation, the monitor will alarm with the mode of low alarm. Temporality the operator could
press the button of "SILENCE", the mode of low alarm will turn to general prompt information.
4.4 SIlenCe and PAuSe
• SILENCE
Press the SILENCE button on the panel for more than 1 seconds can shut off all kinds of sounds until the
SILENCE button is pressed again. When the system is in SILENCE status, any newly generated alarm will
discharge the SILENCE status and make the system give normal status giving audio and visual alarm.
• PAUSE
Press the SILENCE button on the panel once to close all audio and visual prompt and description about all
the physiological alarms and to make the system enter ALARM PAUSE status. The rest seconds for alarm
pause is displayed in the Physiological Alarm area. And the symbol
area.
The user may set up the time for Alarm Pause in the ALARM SETUP menu. Three selections are available:
1min, 2min and 3min.
When in the PAUSE status, press the SILENCE button to restore the normal alarm status. Besides, during
PAUSE status, newly occurring technical alarm will discharge the PAUSE status and the system will access
the normal alarm status. The
Note
Whether an alarm will be reset depends on the status of the alarm cause. But by pressing SILENCE button
can permanently shut off audio sound of Lead Off/Sensor Off alarms.
symbol disappears, too.
is displayed in the System Prompt
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