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Directions for use

Chapter 9 Status icons

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Patient/monitor status icons and recommended action

This table illustrates these things about patient/monitor status icons:

Display priority

Location on the central station map

Messages at the top of the Acuity Central Station screen

Messages in message panels (when present)

Recommended action

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

Recommended action

Port Icon

Locations representing
unused ports available
for monitoring Acuity
System patients.

None

When you are ready, begin
monitoring from this
location.

Monitor Connecting

Locations representing
monitors establishing
communication with
Acuity System.

None

Wait until communication
is established before you
open the Virtual Monitor
or Waveform Window.

Monitor Disconnecting

Locations representing
monitors disconnecting
from Acuity System.

None

If you have pressed the
NET OFF key, unplug
monitor from Acuity
System within 15 seconds
or Acuity System
reconnects.

Patient Intentionally
Disconnected

Locations representing
monitors from which
patients have been
intentionally
disconnected.

This icon also appears
during Manual NIBP-Only
monitoring and spot
SpO2 monitoring, but
does not affect alarming
at Acuity.

None

If communication between
the patient and Acuity
System is reestablished,
the CONFIRM PATIENT?
prompt appears.

Click YES to reconnect the
original patient to Acuity
System.

Patient Monitoring OK

Beneath alerts
and alarms

Locations representing
patients/monitors that
are not in an alarm or
alert state.

None

Auto NIBP-Only
Monitoring

Beneath alerts
and alarms

Locations representing
monitors that are only
monitoring NIBP,
automatically.

None