Welch Allyn Acuity and Mobile Acuity LT Central Monitoring Systems - User Manual User Manual
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Directions for use
Chapter 4 Adjust monitoring settings and patient information
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Adjust preferences for a patient’s central station printouts
This section presents the Printouts Setup window, in which you can specify details
regarding automatic central station printouts.
To adjust preferences for a patient’s printouts
1.
In the patient’s Virtual Monitor, click Setup, Printouts.
The Printouts Setup window appears.
2.
Set preferences in these areas of the window:
•
Central Alarm Print: Check a vital-sign box to set automatic printing of an alarm
print if an alarm occurs for that vital-sign.
•
Print on Alarm Delay: Move the slider to set the time delay (in seconds) between
an alarm and the onset of an alarm printout.
If the duration of an alarm is shorter than this delay period, no alarm print is
generated.
•
Central Auto Print: Click an interval for automatic snapshot printouts (Auto Prints)
to occur.
•
Central OxyCRG Alarm Print: Check a vital-sign box to set automatic printing of an
OxyCRG print if an alarm occurs for that vital sign.
OxyCRG printouts combine HR/PR, CO
2
, RR/BR and SpO
2
vital signs, if active.
Note
On some monitors, RR/BR is labeled RRECG/RRCO2. RR and RRECG are
respiration rates derived from ECG, while BR and RRCO2 are respiration rates
derived from CO
2
.
Prints a Snapshot printout at
the Acuity Central
Station.
These open the Alarms, Printouts, Waveform Window and Arrhythmia Alarms and ST Analysis Setup
windows.