Troubleshooting; Purpose; Alarms And Information Messages; Patient Alarms - Philips TeleMon B M2636B Service Manual

Troubleshooting

Troubleshooting

Purpose

This section provides troubleshooting instructions for TeleMon. To properly troubleshoot
TeleMon, a clear understanding of the Telemetry system is required.
When troubleshooting TeleMon consider that problems can occur because of:
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This section presents symptoms that show up when failures occur, and provides a corrective
action to fix those failures. In this section you will find:
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Alarms and
Two types of signals can be generated during monitoring:
Information
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Messages
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Patient Alarms

When a transmitter is docked in TeleMon, all patient alarms are generated, displayed,
recorded, and silenced either at TeleMon locally, or at the Information Center and
Surveillance Center.
Warning Warning
No patient alarms are annunciated at the TeleMon when local alarms are off. When
local alarms are off, telemetry alarms are presented at the central monitor only, and all
alarm adjustments must be made at central.
All central alarms can be temporarily suspended for 3 minutes from TeleMon. When alarms
are suspended at TeleMon, any active alarm will be silenced. When alarms are unsuspended,
the arrhythmia time outs will be reset.
NBP alarm settings (limits and on/off) are adjusted at central.
Visual Indicators on TeleMon for Patient Alarms:
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5-2 Troubleshooting, Service and Repair
Equipment malfunctions: hardware failures, etc.
Application faults: usually leads off, battery problems, ECG equipment malfunction,
transmitter malfunction, %SpO
RF problems: as a result of RF environmental conditions, or problems like not receiving
a signal, receiving a weak signal, etc. (Solutions to this type of problem are described in
the Telemetry System Service and Reference Guide.)

Alarms and Information Messages

Self-test and Event Log Messages
NBP Event Log Error Codes
Additional Troubleshooting Tips
Patient alarms indicate a life-threatening situation or less urgent situation, such as heart
rate alarm.
Information messages indicate that the monitor cannot measure or detect alarm
conditions reliably.
Message CENTRAL ALARMS ONLY displayed in black on top banner
Message Local Alarms OFF displayed in alarm message area.
malfunction.
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