User's Manual

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Pressure
Overview
A pressure key and waveform will automatically be displayed as soon as you
connect a transducer to the module. Immediately after connection, you can relabel
the catheter site or zero the system. Pressure labels may be pre-defined (refer to
Selecting Alarm Attributes on page 7-7) or you can select from the following:
Disconnecting the pressure cable or the transducer will cause the pressure key
and waveform to disappear from the display.
Pressure Label Description
ART arterial pressure
CVP central venous pressure
ICP intracranial pressure
LAP left atrial pressure
PA pulmonary artery pressure
RAP right atrial pressure
PRS generic pressure
UA umbilical artery pressure
UV umbilical vein pressure
Directory of Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Setting Up Pressure Monitoring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Zeroing the Pressure Transducer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Display Detail. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Setting and Adjusting Alarms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Adjusting Waveform Size. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Selecting Numeric Display Size. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Adjusting Sweep Speed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Displaying Waveforms with Scales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Freezing the Scaled Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Changing the Waveform Scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Selecting the Waveform Measurement Value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Storing Values for Trending . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Recording Waveforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Setting Artifact Rejection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Selecting a Filter Frequency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Restoring User-Defined Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Factory Default Pressure Alarm Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Invasive Pressure Troubleshooting Guide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11