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Chapter 5
Alarms
The X Series unit supports the detection and indication of patient alarms and technical alerts.
A patient alarm is any alarm condition that is caused by a monitored patient-related variable,
such as a measured vital sign that falls outside of a configured alarm limit. You can configure
patient alarm limits for each of the physiologic monitoring functions.
A technical alert is monitored equipment-related variable that the X Series unit can detect, such
as a disconnected sensor, internal diagnostics failures, and so on. Technical alerts are always
enabled and are not user-configurable.
Patient alarms are always classified as high-priority alarms. Urgent technical alerts are
classified as medium priority alarms. Other equipment status messages are classified as
information signals.
Alarm conditions from patient alarms and technical alerts are stored in the Event Log and
retained with normal power down or total loss of power.
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