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Routine Safety Check
Routine Safety Check
Page 32
LP6 Plus and LP10 User’s Manual
Note Use this information along with instructions from the patient’s physician.
The procedure takes about ten minutes to complete and can be performed
by a trained caregiver.
Warnings Disconnect the patient from the ventilator and provide another
means of ventilation before starting these tests.
ALWAYS complete a routine safety check BEFORE connecting the
patient to the ventilator.
1. Check the Low Pressure Alarm.
• If the patient is not connected to the ventilator, connect a patient circuit
and test lung to the ventilator. Then turn the ventilator on and
switch it to an operating mode.
• Disconnect the patient pressure tube from its port near the bacteria filter.
Wait for two or three breaths.
• The Low Pressure/Apnea light should start flashing and the audible
alarm should sound.
• Push the Alarm Silence/Reset button to silence the alarm.
• Reconnect the pressure tube to the ventilator. The Low Pressure/Apnea
light should stop flashing after a breath or two.
2. Check all the settings.
• Compare the current settings to your written record of the prescribed
settings. Your equipment supplier may give you a checklist with these
settings.
• Make sure that all seven controls (located behind the front panel door)
are set to the doctor’s prescription.
3. Check the patient circuit.
• Check every connection in the circuit you are using or plan to use.
Make sure that the tubing is routed correctly, that all connections are
tight, and that there are no leaks.
• Check every part of the circuit for cracks and water. Each part must be
in good condition. There should be no water in any part of the circuit.
4. Check all the alarm signals.
• Turn the Mode switch to Standby.
• Wait one second and turn the Mode switch to Assist/Control.
• All nine lights (on the top section of the front panel) should turn on
and the audible alarm should sound for two seconds.
June 1999