Surgivet® V1030 Hand-Held Pulse Oximeter

Chapter 6: Alarms
High Priority Alarms
A high priority alarm warns of an abnormal patient condition.
A high priority alarm is activated when:
• The patient’s SpO 2 reading matches or exceeds the SpO 2 alarm range.
• The patient’s pulse rate reading matches or exceeds the pulse rate alarm range.
During a high priority alarm:
• The high priority alarm tone sounds, if not silenced. The high priority alarm tone consists of
two bursts of five tones each, repeated every 7 seconds.
• The numeric display of each exceeded parameter flashes twice per second.
During a lost pulse condition, pulse rate and SpO 2 displays will flash “--”.
• The Alarm Indicator flashes red twice per second.
• Each time new trend data is saved it is marked with an alarm active flag.
• The alarm condition is sent to the data output port.
• Alarms active at the time of a real time data output are indicated on the optional WW1026
thermal printer.
NOTE: Both the SpO 2 and pulse rate numbers will flash if both readings are equal to or
exceed their alarm range.
NOTE: The alarm actions occur for each violated alarm, even if more than one alarm is
violated at the same time.
Medium Priority Alarms
A medium priority alarm warns of a low battery signal or Internal Communication Error.
A medium priority alarm is activated when:
• The monitor searches too long for a reading.
• There is less than about 30 minutes of battery life remaining in the monitor’s battery.
• An Internal Communication Error is detected.
During a medium priority alarm:
• The tone sounds if not silenced. The medium priority alarm sound is a set of 3 tones
repeated every 20 seconds.
• The Alarm Indicator flashes yellow once every 2 seconds.
• The alarm condition is sent to the data output port.
• The display shows the error source.
Low Battery
The low battery signal alerts the operator that less than about 30 minutes of battery life remain in
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