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Chapter 11 Specifications
Table 28. Alarm and alert indications at the Waveform Window
Display Priority
Indications
Message Priority
Alarms
(red)
Acuity System automatically displays
Waveform Windows in alarm state in
all views containing Waveform
Windows.
Waveform Windows in alarm
"bump" those not in alarm, when
necessary.
Violating vital sign's numeric is
highlighted. +++ means measured
values fall above the monitor's range,
--- means they fall below, and ???
means they could not be measured.
Specific message appears in border.
Status icon.
If visual latched alarm capability is
enabled, lethal and high-level
arrhythmia alarms (and medium-level
arrhythmia alarms if so configured)
persist in Waveform Windows until
cleared at Central.
Displays highest priority message for
each patient.
Welch Allyn Acuity Central Monitoring System
Monitor equipment
System-wide
alerts
equipment
(yellow)
alerts
(yellow)
Waveform Windows in
No displays in
alert state are not
Waveform
automatically displayed.
Window.
For most, specific
No messages
message appears in
in Waveform
border.
Window.
Status icon.
If more than one monitor
No messages
equipment alert occurs
in Waveform
for one monitor at once,
Window.
a "Multiple" message
appears in border.
Patient
information
alerts
(yellow)
Waveform
Windows in
alert state
are not
automatically
displayed.
Specific
message
appears in
border.
Status icon.
Alarms and
monitor
equipment
alerts take
priority over
low-level
alerts.
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