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

Operation

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.
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B
C

Loading the patient data

Start
Load a preset
A B
Check patient data
C
Select mode
There are two possibilities for loading patient data:
A Defining a new case
B Continuing a case
In the area Check patient data (C), patient data
(e.g., age, weight) are filled in depending on the
selection.
Defining a new case
Select to start the therapy for a new patient:
 Depending on patient category, touch New
adult, New ped, or New neo (A).
The ventilation parameters and alarm limits are set
to the configured start settings, see page 126. The
set value for Ti is automatically set based on RR in
such a way that the resulting I:E ratio is 1:1 for
neonates and 1:2 for all other patient categories.
Continuing a case
Select to start the therapy with the settings of the
last case:
 Touch the Continue case button (B).
Instructions for use Perseus A500 SW 1.1n