Starting The Therapy; Loading The Patient Data - Dräger Perseus A500 Instructions For Use Manual

WARNING
Risk of fire
Components such as power supply units that
heat up are unable to cool down in enclosed
storage locations and may cause a fire.
Do not keep components that heat up in the
drawers or under the column cover.

Starting the therapy

Prerequisite: The device is in Standby mode.
A
Standby
There are 2 possibilities for starting the therapy:
Quick start with Manual / Spontaneous mode
 To perform a quick start with the displayed
fresh-gas settings (A), touch the Quick start
Man/Spon button (B).
Or
Normal start with customized settings
1 Touch the Start... button (C).
2 Adjust the patient data and ventilation settings.
Instructions for use Perseus A500 SW 2.0n
B
C

Loading the patient data

Start
Select patient and check data
A B
C
Select mode
There are two possibilities for loading patient data:
A Defining a new case
B Continuing a case
Depending on the selection, the patient data in
area (C), e.g., weight or age, are filled in
automatically.
Defining a new case
Select to start the therapy for a new patient:
 Depending on the patient category needed,
touch the New adult, New pediatric, or New
neonate button (A).
The ventilation parameters and alarm limits are set
to the configured start settings, see page 150. The
set value for Ti is set automatically based on RR
so that the I:E ratio set in the start settings are the
result, see 158.
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