Testing Alarms - ResMed Astral 150 Information And User Manual For Qualified Professionals

IMPORTANT: All alarms should be responded to no matter what the priority. The priority indicator aims to guide the
urgency in which the situation needs to be resolved.

Testing Alarms

Alarm Checks - Must be carried out at the beginning of each shift. A good time to do this would be when the patient
requires suctioning. It would be useful for two people to do this in order to check the alarms.
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When tubing is first disconnected check that low pressure, disconnection or low tidal volume alarms are
triggered
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Occlude the vent circuit whilst running and check the high pressure or low tidal volume alarms are triggered
V4: August 2018
For Review: August 2019
Author: LTV Team/JT
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