User Manual

AlarmView™ System Administrator’s Manual
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Introduction
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 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:
• Transmitter
• Pager
• Programmer
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 single alarms. Multiple alarms are sent within
approximately 60 seconds.
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
displays immediate information about the patient and type of alarm. If an
alarm condition continues or is not silenced at the monitor, a Reminder
Page is sent once to all pagers in the care unit.
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.