Managing Alarms - ZOE PPM3 User Manual

Managing Alarms

12. Managing Alarms
You can configure the PPM3 to audibly and visually report an alarm condition
when a patient's physiological parameter goes beyond a predetermined limit.
Some parameter alarms are enabled as a factory defaults. One example is the
heart rate alarm, which sounds and flashes when the patient's heart rate rises
above 120 bpm or drops below 50 bpm. Alarm monitoring can be individually
configured for each physiological parameter.
Both the Nightingale PPM3 and the Nightingale MPC support alarm monitoring.
When the PPM3 and MPC are connected, they use the same alarm monitoring
settings. If a setting is changed at either the PPM3 or the MPC, then the setting is
updated at both the PPM3 and the MPC. This is also true for alarm silencing. For
example, if you silence an alarm at the PPM3 by pressing the ALARM SILENCE
key on the front panel keypad, it is also silenced at the MPC.
When the PPM3 and MPC are initially connected, there is special handling to
merge the alarm settings of the two devices. Please see the Centralized
Monitoring chapter (Remote Control Settings) for more details.
In addition to the physiological parameter alarm monitoring, the PPM3 will report
technical alarm conditions that prevent monitoring such as lead off, a low battery
condition, or when the connection is lost between the PPM3 and the MPC for
some reason.
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