Factors Guiding The Admit Process - GE ApexPro Operator's Manual

Factors guiding the admit process

2001989-200E
Term
Bedside monitoring
(hard-wired)
Combo monitoring
WARNING
ALARM ACTIVATION—No alarms sound on the CIC Pro center
until a patient is admitted to the monitor or CIC Pro center. The CIC
Pro center or monitor will not alarm if an unadmitted patient enters
an alarm condition. You must admit the patient to activate alarms,
alarm graphs, and the Events directory.
A telemetry patient must be admitted from the CIC Pro center. If using Combo
monitoring, a telemetry patient may be admitted from either a networked bedside
monitor or the CIC Pro center. You only have to admit a patient once.
The steps you must complete to admit a patient at the CIC Pro center may vary
resulting from the following factors:
The source of the ECG data.
The source of the patient demographic information.
The mobility level of the monitor. Does the monitor move (rove) from room-to-
room?
The permanent assignment (locking) of beds in the multi-patient viewer.
ApexPro™
Definition
WARNING
INCORRECT ALGORITHMS, ARRHYTHMIA
PROCESSING AND CALCULATIONS BASED ON
PATIENT AGE — After manually updating or automatically
retrieving patient demographic information from a network
database, always confirm that the entered patient's date of
birth matches the patient's actual date of birth. Otherwise
the appropriate age-related algorithms, arrhythmia
detection, and calculations will not be applied.
A bedside monitor is a stationary monitor (user-configured or
factory-configured). These monitors are connected directly
to the patient via an ECG cable. They are set up with a unit
name as well as a bed name (e.g., IMC|BED4). For a user-
configured monitor, ECG data is processed by an acquisition
module. For a factory-configured monitor, ECG data is
processed within the monitor itself. For more information,
refer to the CIC Pro Clinical Information Center Operator's
Manual.
This application provides the option to acquire ECG from
either the monitor or from a telemetry receiver system. This
ECG data acquisition capability enhances basic telemetry
monitoring by providing additional access to all of the
available parameters from the monitor. A Unity Network
connection is required.
Managing patients
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