ACM - IHE

IHE Patient Care Device Technical Framework Supplement – Alarm CommunicationManagement (ACM)______________________________________________________________________________161016151984 or 2004. Additionally each digital data component should optionally include a metricdistance based margin for error.Facet 7. Evidentiary dataThis facet encodes an array of real-time measurements typically representing a physiologicalwaveform meant to be rendered by the Alarm Manager or Alarm Communicator at the endpointdevice to assist the caregiver in assessing the condition of the patient that the alarm is for. Thenormative description of the data is found in the Waveform Content Message (WCM) messagecontent document.3.Z.7.6 OBX-6 Units (CE) 00574This field specifies the units associated with the observed value.16203.Z.7.7 OBX-7 References Range (ST) 00575The range of values for Observation Value. The Alarm Manager (AM) actor does not use thisfield to analyze or indicate whether an alarm is due to an abnormal or critical value in theObservation Value. Instead the Abnormal Flags field is used.3.Z.7.8 OBX-8 Abnormal Flags (IS) 005761625This field may be repeated and can contain zero or more abbreviations indicating different facetsof the abnormality of a result, including the type of abnormality (using predefined abbreviationsfrom the table of values in the HL7 standard), and also values from the tables below alarmpriority and whether the alarm is physiological or technical (AlarmType).1630__________________________________________________________________________61Rev. 1.3– 2012-08-16Copyright © 2012: IHE International, Inc.