User's Manual

Contents
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Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Setting Up Arrhythmia Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Setting and Adjusting Alarms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Reviewing Arrhythmias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Display Detail. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Controlling Arrhythmia Alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Clearing a Class or Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Merging Classes/Trends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Plotting Arrhythmia Trend Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Printing Arrhythmia Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Arrhythmia Problem Solving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Arrhythmia Troubleshooting Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Arrhythmia
Overview
Two levels of arrhythmia detection and review are available in Spacelabs Medical
monitors.
The Multiview I option provides enhanced arrhythmia detection and alarms for
ventricular tachycardia, couplets, and single abnormal beats in addition to the
detection and alarm capabilities for high and low heart rates, ventricular fibrillation,
and asystole.
The Multiview II option expands arrhythmia detection to include pauses and
tachycardias of a supraventricular origin. This option also offers storage
capabilities so that trends of arrhythmia episodes as well as dominant and paced
rhythms can be reviewed, edited and printed.
!
• No arrhythmia detection system can correctly detect and
classify all arrhythmias 100% of the time. Use sound clinical
judgement when monitoring patients with arrhythmias.
• You can define your own default settings for such
characteristics as alarm limits and display configuration. Refer
to Module Configuration Manager on page 7-5 for further
details.