Alarm System Response - Fresenius Medical Care multiFiltrate Instructions For Use Manual

Chapter 5: Alarm processing
5.6

Alarm system response

When starting treatment or resuming treatment after an alarm
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Overriding an alarm (temporarily deactivating an alarm system)
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Suppressing the audible alarm (mute)
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When starting treatment or resuming treatment after an alarm, you can
delay the following alarms or widen the alarm limits for a certain period
of time by pressing the START/RESET key.
Alarm
Arterial pressure
Venous pressure
TMP
pF pressure
Blood leak
Warning
While overriding the alarm system, the operator is responsible for the
patient's safety.
If a pending blood leak alarm is confirmed with the START/RESET key,
this alarm is overridden (deactivated) for a certain period of time.
Alarm
Blood leak
The Mute key allows the operator to suppress (deactivate) the audible
tone of a signaled alarm for a certain period of time.
If a new alarm occurs during this time, the audible alarm tone of the new
alarm is signaled regardless.
Fresenius Medical Care multiFiltrate IFU-EN-UK 15A-2015
Response
Alarm limits widened to maximum values for
the duration of the pump start-up
(approx. 10 seconds)
Alarm limits widened to maximum values for
the duration of the pump start-up
(approx. 10 seconds)
Alarm limits widened to maximum values for
the duration of the pump start-up
(approx. 10 seconds)
Alarm limits widened to maximum values for
the duration of the pump start-up
(approx. 10 seconds)
Start delayed for approx. 8 seconds
Override time
2 minutes