Welch Allyn Acuity and Mobile Acuity LT Central Monitoring Systems - User Manual User Manual

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Patient Alarm

or

Telemetry Dropout

Take priority
over alerts.

Locations representing
monitors that are audibly
alarming in response to
one of these conditions:

Patient vital sign
limit violations

Patient monitor is
not communicating
with the Acuity
System.

[room #]
VT
ASYS
VF
APNEA
Limit vital sign

or

[room #] Dropout

Patient Alarm
Attend to the patient and
suspend or silence the
alarm tone. You can turn
off or reset alarm limits
also at the central station.
Then click the Silence/
Reset
key at the patient
monitor. or Resume at the
central station Virtual
Monitor.

Telemetry Dropout
During this state,
Arrhythmia and ST alarms
are not indicated.
1. Click one of these

buttons:

SUSPEND to
suspend the alarm
tone for 90 seconds

RESET to stop the
alert and put the
monitor in the blue,
“patient intentionally
disconnected” state,

2. Bring the wireless

monitor within range
of a wireless access
point.

3. If the problem

persists, contact
qualified service
personnel.

No Continuous Heart/
Pulse Rate Source

Take priority
over alerts.

Locations representing
monitors that no longer
receive continuous heart/
pulse rate signals. If
monitoring began
without an HR/PR
source, the icon remains
blue.

[room #]
Source HR/PR

Reconnect the HR/PR
source at the patient
monitor.

Silence or suspend the
audible alarm tone.

Table 8. Icons and messages that represent patient and monitor status

Patient/monitor
status icon

Icon display
priority

Icon location on map

Messages in
hallway message
panels and at top
of Acuity Central
Station screen

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