User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Introduction
- About the Transmitters
- ECG and SpO2
- ECG Overview
- Patient Preparation and Electrode Application
- To Set Up ECG Monitoring
- ECG Problem Solving
- SpO2 Overview
- Warnings and Cautions for SpO2
- Setting Up SpO2 Monitoring
- Ensuring Accurate SpO2 Monitoring
- SpO2 and Pulse Rate Specifications
- Using the Sensorwatch Feature
- Enabling and Adjusting Alarms
- Data Averaging
- Display Details at the Host Monitor
- Printing SpO2 Waveforms
- SpO2 Messages at the Host Monitor
- SENSOR DISCONNECTED — Check connection at adapter cable
- SENSOR OFF PATIENT — Check connection at patient
- INSUFFICIENT SIGNAL — Reposition or replace sensor
- LOW SIGNAL STRENGTH — Reposition or replace sensor
- AMBIENT LIGHT INTERFERENCE — Cover sensor area
- NOISY SIGNAL
- FAULTY SENSOR — Replace sensor
- HARDWARE INCOMPATIBILITY — Contact service
- Sensors
- SpO2 Alarm Delays
- SpO2 Troubleshooting Guide
- Basic Operations
- Getting Started
- Basic Components
- Selecting Options for Leads
- Basic User Actions
- Basic Modes of Operation
- View Mode
- Status Messages at the Host Monitor
- Telemetry Transmitter with ECG Only Troubleshooting Guide
- Telemetry Transmitter with Display Troubleshooting Guide
- Telemetry Transmitter with Display and SpO2 Troubleshooting Guide
- Cleaning, Disinfecting, and Sterilization
- Appendix A — Guidance and Manufacturer’s Declaration
- Appendix B — Symbols
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Notes:
• Continuous monitoring of blood oxygen saturation values are
only supported in conjunction with ECG monitoring. SpO
2
alarms are inhibited by ECG leads-off condition.
• Operation of this equipment may be subject to licensing
requirements by your local telecommunications authority.
Please check with your Spacelabs Healthcare field service
engineer.
• Spacelabs Healthcare’s telemetry equipment complies with
Part 95H of the FCC Rules and with RSS-210 of Industry
Canada and with requirements of other national spectrum
management authorities.
- Repeated here are operational cautions for biomedical
telemetry from the FCC Rules (47CFR15.242(f)):
“Biomedical telemetry devices must not cause harmful
• The Spacelabs Healthcare digital telemetry transmitters
are contra indicated for use with other medical
instrumentation (e.g., respiration monitors using
impedance pneumography, electrocautery) that source
electrical current through the patient. Further, telemetry
monitoring is contra indicated for the operating room
environment.
• The device should only ever be used for one patient at a
time.
• Opening the battery door and removing one or more of
the batteries will result in the patient NOT being
monitored and the ECG signal NOT being processed.
•SpO
2
alarms are inhibited by ECG lead-off conditions.
• This telemetry transmitter has a limited bandwidth range
of 0.05 to 40 Hz, which may adversely affect the
recording of high frequency components in the ECG
signal, especially when the morphology of the ECG
changes rapidly.
• This telemetry transmitter has a limited dynamic range of
+/- 4 mV, which may render the device vulnerable to
saturation by ECG signals with amplitudes higher than
4 mV.
• Clean the transmitter case with the battery door closed.
If fluid or other contaminants have collected in the battery
compartment, clean and dry it before use.
• Patients should not use any type of electronic equipment
(for example, portable radios, cellular telephones, pagers,
personal computers) while connected to any medical
electronic device without prior evaluation of that
electronic equipment by the biomedical engineering staff.