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Chapter 6 Ventilator Alarms
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Audio Pause and Alarm Reset Features
This section describes the Audio Pause and Alarm Reset features.
Audio Pause
When an alarm occurs, you can temporarily silence the audible
indicator by pressing the Alarm Indicator/Audio Pause button. The
alarm is silenced for 60 seconds and then will sound again if the
cause of the alarm has not been corrected. Each time the Alarm
Indicator/Audio Pause button is pressed, the alarm silence period
resets to one minute.
When Audio Pause is active, the Alarm Indicator/Audio Pause symbol
( ) appears if you are on the Monitor screen. Additionally, an
“Audio Pause” message displays in the menu banner on the Alarm
Display screen.
You can ‘pre-silence’ alarms that have not yet occurred by pressing
the Alarm Indicator/Audio Pause button while no alarms are active.
Then, if an alarm occurs, the audible indicator does not sound until
the Audio Pause time limit has expired. This can be useful during
patient setup, so caregivers can prevent alarms from sounding that
they know will occur during the setup process. The LED and display
will still show the alarm, but the audible alarm will not sound.
Alarm Reset
The Reset button is used to clear the currently active alarm(s) from
the display and stop the LED and audible alarm indicator. This button
should be selected after the situation causing the alarm(s) has been
corrected. All active alarms are cancelled and alarm detection is
restarted when this button is selected.
The ventilator self-cancels certain alarms if the cause of the alarm is
corrected, shutting o the alarm LED, the audible alarm, and the alarm
background color. However, the alarm text remains on the screen. You
can manually reset an alarm by pressing the Left button (Reset). The
Audio Pause function is cancelled if the alarm is manually reset.