User's Manual Part 7

Directions for Use Alarms and Alerts 87
3. Press to silence the audible tone for 90 seconds at the monitor and at Acuity.
• Silencing the audible tone does not remove visual alarm or alert indications.
• Silencing the audible tone causes an alarm or alert suspend at Acuity.
• When the alarm or alert condition is corrected, all alarm or alert indicators cease
and all alarms are immediately rearmed.
4. After caring for the patient, verify that alarm limits are enabled and correctly set.
Suspending the Alarm Tone
If this feature is enabled in the monitor configuration (See “Monitor Configuration” on
page 111), you can suspend all alarm tones for all parameters—preventing the alarm tone
from sounding if an alarm condition occurs—while monitoring a patient. If an alarm
condition occurs while the alarm tones ars suspended, the monitor presents visual alarm
indicators but does not sound the tone.
In the monitor configuration, the alarm tone suspension period can be set to Disabled, to
Always On, or to a period: 90 sec or 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 15, 30, or 60 minutes.
• If it is configured to Disabled, you cannot suspend the alarm tone at the monitor.
• If it is configured to Always On and you set Suspend Audible Alarms to On,
then the alarm tone remains suspended until:
•you set Suspend Audible Alarms to Off or
• monitor power is turned off and then turned on again or
• the monitor is reconfigured
To Suspend the Alarm Tone
1. Access the Setup menu. (See “To Access the Setup Menus” on page 38.)
2. Highlight Suspend Audible Alarms (Figure 86).
The configured suspension period—90 seconds in this example—is displayed to the
right of the line.
WARNING If you turn off or modify any alarm limits while responding to an
alarm, restore the appropriate alarm limits before you resume monitoring.
Note
The factory default suspension period is 4 minutes.
Note
Suspend Audible Alarms does not affect the behavior of the alarm silence/
reset feature ( ). Pressing always either silences a sounding alarm tone for 90
seconds or resets the audible alarm if it was already silenced.