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Chapter 11 Specifications

Welch Allyn Acuity Central Monitoring System

Acuity System customizable defaults and factory defaults

Acuity System default settings appear in Acuity System windows upon patient monitor
connection, when a patient’s window is first opened.

There are two types of Acuity System default settings:

Customizable default settings: Settings that can be customized to match your clinical
workflow model, at the point of installation.

Factory default settings: Settings that are shipped from the factory. These settings
cannot be changed.

Hardware specifications for Acuity System components are listed in the manufacturers’
manuals.

Specifications published in this manual are subject to change.

Central Station windows

Table 30. Acuity Central Station Printer window

Features

Customizable default

Factory default

Printing order of print requests

1. Print Next
2. Alarm Prints
3. All other printout requests, in the

order received

Maximum allowable number of
print requests in a print queue

40

Printout deletion order

When the number of print requests in the
queue exceeds the default, the deletion
order from the queue is:

1st deletes the oldest print requests
(other than alarm or Print Next) in a group
of printout requests for a patient

Then deletes the oldest alarm prints in a
group of printing requests for a patient

Then deletes the oldest “Print Next”
requests in a group of printing requests
for a patient

Table 31. Patient List window

Features

Factory default

Sort order

ID, currently monitored patients at top

Length of time review information
remains accessible

24 to 96 hours after patient discharge from Acuity System monitoring,
depending on Full Disclosure option