Site Planning And Preparation; Overview - Philips M3150B Installation And Service Manual

Overview

The Information Center is the information hub of a clinical patient monitoring environment.
It displays patient monitoring information from fixed bedside and mobile telemetry
monitors and provides alarm annunciation, arrhythmia and ST analysis, and patient data
storage and review. As the information hub, the Information Center system should be
centrally located in the clinical patient monitoring unit so that users can have ready and
convenient access to both Information Center patient information and patients being
monitored.
Planning for the Information Center system is only part of site planning and preparation for
the total patient monitoring environment. Detailed descriptions of site planning for the
patient monitoring environment are provided in the Component Monitoring System Site
Preparation and Installation Manual. Site planning and preparation for the Information
Center system will focus principally on the unique requirements of installing Information
Center hardware as the central station component.
The Database Server is one of the "hidden" components of the Philips Patient Care
Network. The Database Server is generally located in out of the way equipment rooms or
wiring closets. It is rarely seen by clinicians or patients but must be accessible to service
personnel. Significant planning and careful network design is required to assure low cost
and effective network operation.
Chapter 3 describes site planning and installation of the system in the following sections.

Site Planning and Preparation

Site Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 4-2
Network Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 4-6
Site Preparation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 4-20
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Figure 4-1 Typical Information Center Installation
Site Planning and Preparation
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