Product Manual

Continuous patient monitoring

Your device must be configured with the Continuous Monitoring profile to perform

continuous patient monitoring.

Key terms

Patient context Condition in which a patient ID and patient type have been selected on a device.

Location context Condition in which a room or a room and bed have been selected on a device.

You have the option to continuously monitor patients on the device alone (primary

monitoring) or to stream continuous patient data to a central station as well (secondary

monitoring).

If Continuous Monitoring has been configured as the default profile, then the device

starts up in this profile. If the Continuous Monitoring profile is active, you can proceed

with an existing patient and/or location context, or you can assign a patient and location.

Activate the Continuous Monitoring profile

If the Continuous Monitoring profile is not active, follow these steps:

Touch the Settings tab.

2. Touch the Device tab.

The Profile vertical tab appears.

3. Select Continuous Monitoring.

If you have stored patient context or patient measurement data, a confirmation

dialog appears with the following message: "Changing to the Continuous Monitoring

profile deletes all measurement data from the device. Continue anyway?"

4. Touch Yes to confirm or No to cancel the profile change.

Note Selecting No enables you to send captured vitals data on the

device before changing profiles. After you complete that

task, if applicable, repeat steps 1–4.

5. After confirming the profile change, touch the Home tab.

You can now start monitoring a new patient in the Continuous Monitoring profile.

Pause continuous monitoring (Standby mode)

You can temporarily pause continuous monitoring and retain patient data on the device

when your patient needs to ambulate, use the restroom, or go off the unit for a test.

Note

If a low-battery alarm occurs on the device, Standby mode is not available.

Note While in standby mode, the device retains previously stored patient data,

but it does not display this data or store additional patient measurements

until you exit standby mode.

1. Touch the Settings tab.

The Monitor tab appears.

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