User's Manual

Alarms
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To resume alarms at a bedside monitor, touch the TONE RESET/ALM SUSPEND
key again.
Alarm Watch
With the network Alarm Watch feature, you can be notified at a local bedside or
central monitor of all alarms from a remote bed. The Alarm Watch feature defaults
to its last setting when the monitor is turned ON. The local monitor displays the
message ALARM WATCH ON when the Alarm Watch feature for a remote bed is
active. On a central monitor, the message AW OFF also displays for each bed not
selected for Alarm Watch.
Refer to Viewing Remote Parameters on page 1-9 for more information. The listed
limits for the number of devices that can remotely view a monitor apply to Alarm
Watch-initiated remote views.
When a parameter from a monitor that is under Alarm Watch goes into alarm, a
message such as ALARM WATCH – BED 28 ECG CHANNEL IN ALARM
displays on the message line of the alarm-watching monitor. A one-time advisory
tone sounds at the watching bedside or central monitor. The corresponding
waveform appears in the lowest zone on the screen of the alarm-watching
monitor, unless:
• another alarm-watched parameter is in alarm and its waveform already
occupies that zone at the watching monitor,
-OR-
• a parameter is displayed in the lowest zone of the monitor and its parameter
key has been activated displaying a menu.
When a waveform for an Alarm Watch parameter in alarm displays, the
appropriate tone sounds at the bedside (once) and at the central monitors for the
duration of the alarm.
Only one Alarm Watch waveform can be viewed at a time. When subsequent,
concurrent alarms occur for one patient or other patients on Alarm Watch, a
message displays and a one-second advisory tone sounds. Remember to enable
Alarm Watch tones in the Monitor Setup menu to produce audible alarms.
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• You cannot suspend alarms from a central monitor. However,
you can silence alarm tones for 45-seconds. Touching this key
has no effect if it is touched at the central monitor when no
alarm is sounding.
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• A central monitor can be configured with the Central Alarm
Watch Manager to automatically Alarm Watch every bed it is
currently monitoring. Contact your system administrator about
this feature.
To enable Alarm Watch:
1 Touch SPECIAL FUNCTIONS.
2 Touch ALARM WATCH.
3a Select a bed or a subnet.
3b If you selected a subnet, then
select a bed.
4 Ensure that the key for the
desired bed(s) has the ON
segment highlighted or is
indented.
5 Touch ALARM WATCH
ENABLE for the UCW and
Ultraview 1700.
To disable Alarm Watch:
1 Touch SPECIAL FUNCTIONS.
2 Select RV/AW OFF.
To de-select beds for Alarm
Watch:
1 Touch SPECIAL FUNCTIONS.
2 Touch ALARM WATCH.
3a Touch the bed to de-select.
-OR-
3b Touch DESELECT ALL.