Network Design
Printers
HP LaserJet printers can be network connected to the network for shared printing
capability.
A summary of these design capabilities and limitations of Patient Care Network
components is given in Table 4-1.
Description of Limit
Maximum Number of Information Centers per system
Maximum Number of Clients per system
Maximum Number of Database Servers per system
Maximum Number of beds per Information Center
Maximum Number of monitored beds per system
Maximum Number of networked printers
Information
This section includes independent Information Center designs only, that is Information
Center (Local
Centers that are not connected to a IntelliVue Clinical Network.
Database)
Equipment
Requirements must be matched to the following Philips Patient Care Network equipment
Capability
capabilities.
These design capabilities and limitations are summarized in Table 4-2, Philips Patient Care
Network Component Capabilities and Limitations.
Table 4-2. Philips Patient Care Network Component Capabilities and Limitations
Component
Device
Patient Monitors
Hardwired monitor
Telemetry monitors
Telemetry Mainframe
4-10
Site Planning and Preparation
Table 4-1. Release E.01 System Capabilities
•
Information Center capability can:
– display data from up to 16 patient monitors
– annunciate 22 alarms
– store up to 150 alarm records
– store up to 96 hours of patient data for:
—
waves
—
ST segments
—
trends
—
events
•
each System Communications Controller can manage data for up to 6 Information
Centers and from up to 24 patient monitors.
•
Patient monitors for both systems can be hardwired or telemetry.
•
Telemetry mainframes can support 8 channels of telemetry monitoring.
M3150 Local
M3169 Small
Database
Database
1
0
0
16
16
2
Capabilities
1 per patient
1 per patient
8 monitors per Mainframe
M3154 Central
Database
3
8
3
8
1
10
4
16
48
128
4
8
Limitations
See Note below