User's Manual

Alarms
2-5
* The repetition rate for the tone bursts on the High, Medium, and Low levels can
be adjusted for all monitors by your system administrator.
Adjusting Alarm Tones/Key Tones
You can turn the alarm tone ON or OFF and adjust the tone volume for local
alarms, Remote View alarms, or Alarm Watch alarms. While you are adjusting
tone volume, a tone sounds briefly as an example of the new level.
Alarm tones refer to the sound associated with an alarm condition. Key tones
sound each time you touch a screen key.
Volume adjustments affect only the monitor where the adjustment is made. The
tone volume of an alarm notification at a remote monitor must be adjusted at that
monitor. It cannot be adjusted remotely. A visual alarm notification is displayed
until the condition is resolved, even if you disable the alarm tones at that monitor.
Alarm Watch tones sound when the Alarm Watch feature is active and an alarm
condition exists on a watched monitor. The Alarm Watch feature must be enabled
via the Special Functions menu for the Alarm Watch tone to sound.
The Remote View alarm tone only sounds when a remotely viewed parameter
goes into alarm.
Table 2: Alarm Watch and Remote View Alarms
Priority Tone Type* Visual Tone Duration
High Central
continuous tone, or 2 bursts
of 5 tones every 15-seconds
Bedside
one single tone
flashing key; message
appears in red on color
monitors
Central
until the alarm condition is
resolved or the tone is reset
Bedside
one-second
Medium Central
intermittent tone (one
second ON, one second
OFF), or burst of tones
every 30-seconds
Bedside
one single tone
flashing key; message
appears in yellow on
color monitors
Central
until the alarm condition is
resolved or the tone is reset
Bedside
one-second
Low Central
intermittent tone (one
second ON, four seconds
OFF), or one tone every
30-seconds
Bedside
one single tone
flashing key; message
appears in yellow on
color monitors
Central
until the alarm condition is
resolved or the tone is reset
Bedside
one-second
WARNING:
• Disabling alarm tones via Monitor Setup at a bedside or at a
central monitor eliminates alarm tones for all alarm
conditions at that monitor, even in the case of life-
threatening events.
To set local alarm tones or key
tones:
1 Touch MONITOR SETUP.
2 Touch TONES.
3 Select LOCAL ALARMS or KEY
TONE.
4 Select TONES ON.
5 Use VOLUME↑ and VOLUME↓
keys to adjust.
To set alarm watch tones or
remote view tones:
1 Touch MONITOR SETUP.
2 Touch TONES.
3 Select ALARM WATCH or
REMOTE ALARMS.
4 Select TONES ON.
5 Use VOLUME↑ and VOLUME↓
keys to adjust.