GE B20 User Manual page 43

Alarm categories
The alarms are classified into four categories according to the priority depends primarily on the cause and alarm duration. The priority
increasing with the duration and according to the physiological significance.
NOTE: Asystole, ventricular fibrillation and V Tach alarms are always high priority alarms.
Signal
Alarms in Message Field Solid red background
Alarm reset in Message
Field
Physiological data
values in Digit Field
Alarm light
Alarm tone ISO pattern
Alarm tone ISO2 pattern 10 beeps every 5 seconds
Alarm tone IEC pattern
Alarm tone Gerenal
pattern
For more information about audible tone pattern see the "Default Configuration Worksheet".
High
Solid red background
with audio pause symbol
Flashing red,
physiological alarms only
Flashing red
10 beeps every 5 seconds 3 beeps every 19 seconds 1 beep every 30 seconds
(rising tone)
10 beeps every 5 seconds
(rising tone)
Continuous beep
Priority level
Medium
Yellow boundary, blue-
gray background
Yellow boundary, blue-
gray background, with
audio pause symbol
Flashing yellow,
physiological alarms only
Flashing yellow
3 beeps every 19.5
seconds (rising tone)
3 beeps every 19 seconds
(rising tone)
Double beep every 5
seconds
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Low Informational
Cyan boundary, blue- Blue-gray background
gray background field
Cyan boundary, blue- No
gray background, with
audio pause symbol
No No
Solid Cyan No
No
1 beep every 30 seconds No
1 beep every 30 seconds No
1 beep every 30 seconds No