Welch Allyn Medical Diagnostic Equipment Medical Alarms 8.1x Manual Do Utilizador

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Discontinue Acuity System 
monitoring

Stop monitoring a patient 

You can either temporarily interrupt or permanently stop patient monitoring. 

For information about patient monitors that are part of your Acuity System but are not 
shown in this chapter, consult the patient monitor manufacturer’s literature.

Temporarily interrupt monitoring

1.

Disconnect sensor cables from the monitor. 

Leave the monitor turned on. Equipment alert(s) appear.

2.

Acknowledge (Disable) all equipment alerts. 

At the central station, the patient’s map icon and windows are in the blue, “patient 
intentionally disconnected” state. 

3.

(Optional) Disconnect lead wires from patient electrodes, and disconnect electrodes 
from the patient. 

4.

When ready to resume normal monitoring, reconnect sensor cables to the monitor.

5.

If necessary, apply lead wires to electrodes, and apply electrodes to the patient. 

The CONFIRM PATIENT? prompt appears. 

6.

Take one of these steps:

•

If the information in the CONFIRM PATIENT? prompt is correct, click YES. 

At the central station, the patient’s windows return to the state that they were in 
before the disconnect.

•

If the information in the CONFIRM PATIENT? prompt is not correct, click NO and 
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