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Alarms and Limits

General

Setting Alarm Limits
Alarm Silence
WARNING: Do not silence the audible alarm or decrease its volume if patient safety
could be compromised.
WARNING: Each time the monitor is used, check alarm limits to ensure that they are
appropriate for the patient being monitored.
WARNING: The audible and visual alarms on the monitor, used in conjunction with
clinical signs and symptoms, are the primary source for notifying medical personnel
that an alarm condition exists.
CAUTION: For patient safety, all alarms are reset to the factory default levels whenever
the patient type is changed. This means that you must either accept the default alarm
limits or set new limits every time you change patient type.
CAUTION: The high alarm limit for any vital sign is always higher than the low alarm
limit for the same vital sign. For example, the alarm limit for systolic high is always
higher than the alarm limit for systolic low.
Note: For adjusting alarm volume, you may refer to page 31, of this manual. Alarm
volume is set to '4' as a factory default.
General
When the monitor detects certain conditions that require user attention, such as out-of-
limit vital signs,
indicated by visual and audible indication
Alarm Condition
Battery Failure
Loss of Pulse
Limit violation
Other system or
measurement error
monitor enters an alarm state. The monitor response is

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Table 7. Alarm Indication
Alarm Indication
Presenting appropriate error codes and sounding audible alarms.
Note: In case of loss of pulse alarm, error code (E44) is flashing
Flashing the violating value in the appropriate display and
sounding audible alarms.
Presenting appropriate error codes and sounding audible
alarms if available.
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