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Adjust a patient’s waveform displays – 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 a patient’s waveform displays

You can select waveforms for display in a patient’s Virtual Monitor and Waveform Window.

To adjust waveform displays for a patient’s Virtual Monitor

You can select or deselect up to three vital-sign waveforms for viewing.

1.

In the patient’s Virtual Monitor, click MAIN MENU, MORE, WAVE SEL.

2.

Click NEXT to highlight a waveform.

3.

Click ON/OFF.

To adjust waveform displays for a patient’s Waveform Window

1.

In the patient’s Virtual Monitor, click Setup, Waveform Window.

The Waveform Window Setup window appears.

2.

Click 1 or 2 to select the number of waveforms to display in the Waveform Window.

3.

Check a vital-sign box to display a waveform.

If ECG is monitored, ECG1 is always displayed and cannot be deselected.

NIBP is selected for display if it is the only vital sign monitored.

Note

Only three waveforms can be displayed at a time in the Virtual Monitor. These
waveforms are displayed based on their priority. Make sure you turn off all
waveforms you do not want displayed. For a list of waveform priorities, see

“Virtual Monitor”

on page 189 or

“Waveform Window”

on page 190.

Copy of the Waveform Window

These open the Alarms, Printouts, Waveform Window, Arrhythmia

Alarms and ST Analysis Setup windows.

Closes the patient’s

Waveform Window
on the Acuity Central
Station screen.

Note: If you need to

close a Waveform
Window from a
Patient List Review
(PLR) station, see

page 12

.