Alarm Categories; Patient Status Alarms - GE ApexPro Operator's Manual

Alarm categories

Patient status alarms

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The CIC Pro center categorizes alarms into patient status or system status alarms.
NOTE
The system will enunciate the system Warning and system Advisory fog horn for
Leads Fail, as it takes priority over any active patient status Warning, Advisory
and Message alarms.
NOTE
Crisis alarms are never superseded.
NOTE
When in Combo mode, alarm priority may be affected by the monitoring mode,
i.e., USER DEFINED or TELE DEFINED. For more information, refer to
Combo and Rover Combo monitoring on page
Patient status alarms are the highest priority alarm. They are triggered by a patient
condition which exceeds a parameter's alarm limits or by an arrhythmia condition.
There are four severity levels of patient status alarms:
Crisis: Life-threatening events. Crisis alarms sound until silenced by the user.
Warning: Serious but non-life-threatening events. Warning alarms sound until
the condition is resolved.
Advisory: Events that require monitoring, but are not serious or life threatening.
Advisory alarms sound until the condition is resolved.
Message: Additional information only.
The CIC Pro center's response to patient status alarms is as follows:
Indicator
Alarm tone Three
beeps
On-screen message Yes
Colored patient Red
1 2
window border
3 Yes
Automatic graph
Events Yes
1
When using the multi-patient viewer, the patient window border briefly flashes on and off at the
start of the alarm and then stays on until the alarm is silenced or the alarming condition
ends.
2
Only patient status Crisis and Warning alarms and system status Warning alarms activate the
colored border. Patients selected for single patient view have a white border in the multi-
patient viewer.
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Crisis Warning
Two beeps
Yes
Yellow
Yes
Yes
Alarms
Advisory Message
One beep No
Yes Yes
No No
No No
Yes No
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