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

Directions for use

Chapter 9   Status icons

Patient Alarm 

or

Telemetry Dropout 

Take priority 
over alerts. 

Locations representing 
monitors that are audibly 
alarming in response to 
one of these conditions:
•

Patient vital sign 
limit violations

•

Patient monitor is 
not communicating 
with the Acuity 
System.

[room #] 
VT
ASYS
VF
APNEA
Limit vital sign

or 

[room #] Dropout

Patient Alarm
Attend to the patient and 
suspend or silence the 
alarm tone. You can turn 
off or reset alarm limits 
also at the central station. 
Then click the Silence/
Reset key at the patient 
monitor. or Resume at the 
central station Virtual 
Monitor.

Telemetry Dropout
During this state, 
Arrhythmia and ST alarms 
are not indicated.
1. Click one of these 

buttons:

•

SUSPEND to 
suspend the alarm 
tone for 90 seconds

•

RESET to stop the 
alert and put the 
monitor in the blue, 
“patient intentionally 
disconnected” state, 

2. Bring the wireless 

monitor within range 
of a wireless access 
point. 

3. If the problem 

persists, contact 
qualified service 
personnel.

No Continuous Heart/
Pulse Rate Source

Take priority 
over alerts. 

Locations representing 
monitors that no longer 
receive continuous heart/
pulse rate signals. If 
monitoring began 
without an HR/PR 
source, the icon remains 
blue.

[room #] 
Source HR/PR

Reconnect the HR/PR 
source at the patient 
monitor. 

Silence or suspend the 
audible alarm tone.