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Directions for use
System buttons
The system buttons in the lower left corner of the Acuity Central Station screen provide
quick access to frequently used system-wide functions.
The Patient List button opens the Patient List window, which enables you to preadmit, readmit, transfer,
and discharge patients in your Acuity System. You can also view and print stored waveforms and trends
of patients who have not been monitored by the Acuity System for (up to) 96 hours.
If your Acuity System is connected within a network of Acuity Systems, depending upon the type of
network, you can perform the above functions for networked patients. You can also locate networked
patients, edit their patient information, change their alarm limits and suspend their alarms and alerts.
A Patient List button is displayed also in review windows that have been opened by way of the Patient
List window.
When you click and hold the View Wireless button, the map icons of all patients that are connected to
wireless monitors change to Wireless icons; other patient icons become gray boxes. The map returns to
normal when you release the button on your mouse or trackball.
The System Administration button opens a window that allows designated system administrators to
create new user identifications and to adjust system time.
The Sort Windows button sorts all Waveform Windows and any open Virtual Monitor windows by room
number, in alphanumeric order. The sorting only applies to the current screen view.
• Waveform Windows for monitors without confirmed patient IDs are located at the end.
• For networked Acuity Systems with more than one Acuity System unit, rooms are grouped together
according to Acuity System unit.
• The order in which windows are displayed depends on how your system has been configured.
Generally, windows are displayed from top to bottom and left to right.
If the Sort Windows button is grayed-out, your system is not configured to sort windows. In this
case, each Waveform Window space is assigned to a particular room, and unassigned wireless
monitors occupy unoccupied Waveform Window spaces. Wireless monitors are "bumped out" to
different unoccupied spaces if their spaces become occupied by hardwired monitors.
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