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Chapter 4 Adjust monitoring settings and patient information
Welch Allyn Acuity Central Monitoring System
Adjust a patient’s alarm limits
In the Alarms Setup window, you can adjust a patient’s alarm limits individually or as a
group.
To adjust a patient’s alarm limits
1.
In the patient’s Virtual Monitor, click Setup, Alarms.
The Alarms Setup window appears.
2.
Check vital-sign boxes along the bottom of the screen to view corresponding alarm
limits.
3.
Adjust alarm limits in one of these ways:
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Adjust limits for one vital sign at a time.
Click On or Off next to the limits-pair to adjust the pair. Click On to turn the alarm
limits on, and click Off to turn the alarm limits off.
Click and move a slider head to set or turn off a lower or upper limit.
Click Auto Set to set a limits-pair close to the patient’s current vital-sign values.
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Reset limits for all vital signs at once.
Click Alarm Set, and then click one of these options:
Stat Set sets all limits based on the patient’s current vital-sign values.
Presets sets all limits to preset values. For details, see
All Alarms On turns on any limits that are off, with the values that they last held.
WARNING Before you set customized alarm limits for a patient, confirm the
patient’s ID and room number. Otherwise, customized limits might be lost.
These open the Alarms, Printouts, Waveform Window, Arrhythmia Alarms and ST Analysis
Setup windows.
Limits
Limits-pair
Slider head
Patient’s measured value