Data Critical Corporation AVTS1010 User Manual

AlarmView™ System User’s Guide 
 
 

 
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The AlarmView System is a complete, secondary patient monitoring 
system. AlarmView notifies caregivers of patient events using a wireless 
network that supplements the primary notification system. 
 
AlarmView is installed in care units where Nellcor NPB-290, NPB-295, N-
395, and N-3000 pulse oximetry monitors are used.  
 
AlarmView is intended for use in hospitals and hospital-type facilities, 
such as surgical centers, subacute centers, special nursing facilities and 
sleep labs. Hospital use typically includes areas for general care, special 
procedure, intensive and critical care, and operating rooms. Intended 
patient population consists of all patients for whose physicians have 
ordered pulse oximetry monitoring. 
 
AlarmView consists of the following three basic components. 
 

1. Transmitter 
2. Handheld Programmer 
3. Pager 

 
At each bedside, a transmitter connects to the data port on the patient 
monitor. The transmitter detects alarms identified by the monitor, and 
sends the information to one or more text pagers worn by caregivers 
within 10 seconds (for a single alarm response, multiple alarms within 
approximately 60 seconds). 
 
The programmer is a handheld computing device running the Microsoft® 
Windows® CE Operating System. Proprietary AlarmView software used 
to configure the AlarmView system is pre-installed in the programmer. 
 
The pager is worn by the caregiver responsible for the patient. It receives 
Alarm Pages in the form of text messages from the transmitter, and