Monitor Controls; Setting The Pressure High Alarm Limit - Dräger Narkomed 2B Operator's Instruction Manual

Section 5 - Operation
Breathing Pressure Monitoring

Monitor Controls

Setting the
Pressure High
Alarm Limit
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You use the pressure alarm keys to set breathing pressure alarm limits
and to turn the apnea alarm on and off. These keys are in the middle
row of the key bank to the right of the right-hand display screen.
HIGH PRESSURE
ALARM LIMIT KEY
PEEP MEAN
2
DECREMENT KEY
INCREMENT KEY
The pressure high alarm limit is automatically set to 50 cmH
power-up. You can change this limit within the range of 30 to
125 cmH O.
2
NOTE: If you set the pressure high alarm limit on or below
60 cmH
0–40 cmH
60 cmH
this broader scale, the threshold pressure alarm limit (a
horizontal dotted line) is not shown with the trace.
To adjust the pressure high alarm limit, follow these steps:
1. Press the HI alarm limit key.
A box is drawn around the pressure high alarm limit.
2. Press the increment (up arrow) or decrement (down arrow) key to
increase or decrease the pressure high alarm limit.
If you do not press a key within five seconds, the highlighting box
disappears. To begin again, return to step 1.
3. To save the new value, simply stop pressing keys.
PEAK
50
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O, the breathing pressure waveform is scaled from
2
O. If you set the alarm limit higher than
2
O, the waveform is scaled from 0–125 cmH
2
THRESHOLD PRESSURE
ALARM LIMIT KEY
PRESSURE ALARMS
HI
APNEA ALARM
(THRESHOLD
PRESSURE)
DISABLE KEY
O at
2
APNEA
ALARM
DISABLE
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2