General Warnings And Cautions - Dräger Babylog VN500 Instructions For Use Manual

For Your Safety and that of Your Patients
Functional safety
The essential performance consists in controlled
and monitored patient ventilation with user-defined
settings for the monitoring functions
– minimum breathing gas flow
– maximum airway pressure
– minimum and maximum O
breathing gas
or, if a set limit is exceeded, by an appropriate
alarm. The medical device is equipped with basic
safety features to reduce the possibility of patient
injury while the cause of an alarm is remedied.

General WARNINGS and CAUTIONS

The following WARNINGS and CAUTIONS apply to
general operation of the device. WARNINGS and
CAUTIONS specific to subsystems or particular
features appear with those topics in later sections
of these Instructions for Use or in the Instructions
for Use of any product being used with this device.
WARNING
This medical device is only intended to be
used by trained medical personnel.
WARNING
Medications and other substances based on
inflammable solvents, such as alcohol, must
not be used in the patient system. Fire hazard!
Adequate ventilation must be ensured if high-
ly inflammable substances are used for disin-
fection.
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Instructions for Use Infinity Acute Care System – Babylog VN500 SW 2.n
WARNING
Fire hazard!
Do not use the medical device in conjunction
with flammable gases or flammable solutions
that can mix with air, oxygen or nitrous oxide,
or other sources of ignition since the medical
device could ignite. Do not allow the medical
device to come into contact with sources of ig-
nition.
WARNING
Do not use the medical device during magnet-
ic resonance (MRI, NMR, NMI)! This may im-
pair correct functioning of the medical device
and endanger the patient.
WARNING
Do not use the medical device in hyperbaric
chambers! This may impair correct function-
ing of the medical device and endanger the pa-
tient.