User's Manual

Central Monitors
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Screen Saver
Activating the screen saver blanks the screen (displaying only the Spacelabs
Medical logo). You may also disable the screen saver by touching the screen,
clicking (or dragging) the mouse, or pressing any key on the keyboard.
Data Communications Watch
The Data Communications Watch (DCW) feature displays a Data
Communications Interrupted (DCI) message on the central when the central’s
communication link to a bedside/remote monitor is interrupted.
A bedside monitor may drop from the central display because of a power
interruption at the bedside, Ethernet failure, or other circumstance. As soon as a
communication loss is detected by the central monitor, a DCI notification will be
displayed on the screen in place of each channel that lost communication, and an
alarm tone will sound if enabled (refer to Enabling Alarms (Optional) on page 6-8).
Keys will be displayed in the waveform zone of the interrupted channel to permit
disabling of the alarm tone associated with the interruption, and to remove the
zone from the display.
The DCI notification shows the bed name, patient name and the parameter key
label of the lost channel, as shown in Figure 6-4.
Figure 6-4: DCI notification display
The parameter key (ECG in the above example) will also flash (if DCW alarms are
enabled) when the DCI notification is displayed on the screen. Touch this key to
display a status message at the bottom of the screen noting the time and date that
communication with the lost channel was interrupted.
Press YES to remove all DCI notifications associated with the same bedside from
the central display. Unless the zone is re-assigned by the user, the central will
continue to attempt communication with the remote monitor. Once communication
is restored, the patient data is displayed in the zones again.
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• The screen will automatically be restored by an incoming alarm
condition.
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• The Data Communications Watch feature is enabled only
through the system administrator menu.
To activate the screen saver:
1 Touch MONITOR SETUP.
2 Touch MONITOR
CONFIGURATION.
3 Touch ACTIVATE SCREEN
SAVER.
To enable Data Communications
Watch (must have system
administrator menu access):
1 Touch MONITOR SETUP.
2 Touch PRIVILEGED ACCESS.
3 Enter Biomed password.
4 Touch MORE.
5 Touch DATA COMM WATCH.
6 Select COMM WATCH ON.
7 Select ALARM ON to enable
DCW alarms.
8 Select ADMIT REQUIRED ON
to enable DCW for admitted
patients only.
REMOVE PATIENT ZONE?
YES
E
C
G
BED 01 JONES, B
NO
DATA COMMUNICATIONS INTERRUPTED