Config Settings; View Event History Menu - GE Dash 2500 Operator's Manual

Config settings

View Event History Menu

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Alarms: View Event History Menu
4. Turn the Trim Knob clockwise to increase the number or counterclockwise
to decrease the number.
5. Push the Trim Knob to confirm the new limit.
This option allows you to view, but not change, the various configuration
options. To change any config option, you must go into the password-protected
Configuration Mode. Refer to the Dash 2500 Patient Monitor Service Manual
(PN 2042481-001) for more information.
When viewing the event history, patient-related events are viewed separately
from system-related events. You can access the last 200 patient-related events
and the last 100 system-related events. A maximum of 16 events can be
displayed on the screen at any time and events are arranged with the most
recent at the top of the screen.
For every alarm generated, an entry is stored in the Patient Event History,
System Event History, or both histories. Events that are not clearly patient or
system related are listed below.
the admission of a new patient (Patient Event History)
cancellations of NIBP determinations (both Patient Event History and
System Event History)
a change to the alarm or system volumes (both Patient Event History and
System Event History)
activation or deactivation of the alarm disable function (System Event
History)
parameter errors and failures (System Event History)
the activation of Freeze hardkey (Patient Event History)
a change in the date and time (both Patient Event History and System
Event History)
Information included with each event:
date
time
condition causing the event
patient value that violated its limit, for entries associated with limit alarms
limit violated, for entries associated with limit alarms
unit of measure
priority level of the alarm at the time it was generated
If available, a frozen ECG primary waveform is stored with any of the following
stored events:
Dash 2500 Patient Monitor 2042480-001 C