Monitoring The Patient - Welch Allyn Atlas Operator's Manual

2 Monitoring the Patient

The patient's vital measurements are displayed as numeric readings and as waveforms. You can set the
measurement limit alarm levels, silence the alarms for a short period, and suspend individual alarms.
You can print waveforms and current measurements, or print all the stored trend data.
The front panel has two sides:
The left side displays
waveforms, numeric
readings, and trend
data on a CRT screen.
Each side responds to the adjacent
buttons used for setting alarm limits. Each side
also has
ALARMS Off
suspend (turn off) individual alarms.
Note: Individual alarms can be suspended for only
3 minutes when the language setting is configured
to "Francais". If the language is set to any other
language, pressing the individual
buttons will suspend the alarm until you remove
the suspension.
Note: The temperature measurement does not
have an alarm.
Setting alarm limits - Press the
choose which alarm limit you want to set. Each
time you press the
Select
next alarm, shown by small
and the measurement display flashes the current
alarm setting. The
Set
limit. Press the top or bottom of the button to
change the limit up or down.
Note: the flashing alarm-setting mode only lasts
10 seconds before reverting back to the normal
measurement mode. If you take too long to set
a limit, you'll need to press the
and start over again.
Press the button to go to the next
Select
measurement alarm. Press it several times to cycle
out of all the alarm settings and go back to the
normal measurement mode.
Silencing alarms - The
The right side has
measurements
displayed in green
and red LEDs.
and
Select
buttons, which are used to
ALARMS Off
button to
Select
button, it cycles to the
and indicators,
HI LO
button changes this alarm
button
Select
button silences
Silence
all alarms for 60, 90 or 120 seconds. This silence
period can be set to one of these three choices in
Advanced Configuration. During the silence
period, there will be no audible alarms, even for
measurements that go outside the limit range for
the first time. However, any measurement that is
outside the limits you set will flash. When alarms
are silenced, they will not trigger a Print On
Set
Alarm. When the silence period is over, an alarm
that is still active will trigger a Print On Alarm if
the Print On Alarm configuration is set to Yes.
Trend data - Press the
trend data. The waveform display is replaced by
the first screen of trend data, starting with the
most recent measurements at the top. View the
rest of the trend data by pressing the
or down.
The trend memory can hold up to 144 lines of
measurements, which is 36 hours of data if taken
at 15-minute intervals.
Printing - The
on the screen - the waveforms (including all
current measurements) or the screen with trend
data. When you push the button, waveforms are
printed starting from 9 seconds before you pushed
the button until 6 seconds after you pushed
Print
the button for a total printout of 15 seconds. The
other information on the printout is captured at the
time that the
On Alarm configuration is set to Yes and a Patient
Alarm or Measurement Invalid Alarm occurs,
Atlas will print the current measurements and the
currently configured waveforms automatically.
– If your monitor does not have a printer,
Freeze
the button is labeled
stops the waveform display for 10 seconds, and
then the readout resumes.
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button to see the
Trend
button prints what you see
Print
button is pressed. If the Print
Print
. Pressing
Freeze
button up
Set
Freeze