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5
Alarm processing
5.1
Acknowledging a message repeatedly
Fresenius Medical Care multiFiltrate IFU-EN-UK 15A-2015
For the safety systems, the relevant alarm limits and alarm conditions
described in Chapter 12 "Specifications", under "Dialysate circuit and
safety systems" and "Extracorporeal blood circuit and safety systems",
also apply.
Operators must stay close enough to the device to be able to notice any
emitted visual or audible alarms at all times.
Warning
Patient hazard through repeatedly acknowledging a message
Always correct the problem that caused the message before
acknowledging it.
Note
When alarms and warnings occur, follow the information given in the
messages, as well as any explanations given in the Help function "?".
If the following alarms and warnings are repeatedly acknowledged
without being corrected, this can endanger the patient as follows:
Alarms / warnings
Loss of pressure at the venous
vascular access
Arterial and venous pressure
alarms
Anticoagulation alarms
(e.g., heparin pump alarms)
Blood leak alarms
Isolated citrate dosage with
balancing switched off
Low temperature warning
Chapter 5: Alarm processing
Possible patient hazard
Extraneous blood loss
Bleeding into tissue
Haemolysis, through kinks in the
tubing system
Loss of blood through
coagulation in the extracorporeal
blood circuit
Wrong dosage of
anticoagulation medium
Loss of blood into filtrate /
plasma
Citrate accumulation /
disruption of acid-base status
Hypothermia
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