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Welch Allyn Acuity and Mobile Acuity LT Central Monitoring Systems - User Manual User Manual

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Chapter 5 Respond to alarms and alerts

Welch Allyn Acuity Central Monitoring System

To respond to a RELEARN alert

1.

In the patient’s Virtual Monitor, carefully evaluate the new ECG rhythm to ensure that
the Acuity System has learned an appropriate rhythm.

2.

Check the relearned ECG rhythm in the Waveforms Review window:

a.

Click Review, Waveforms.

The Waveforms Review window appears.

b.

Click the Arrhythmia Relearn event marker (

▼) shown at the time of the Relearn

event.

c.

Examine the rhythm that the system learned to ensure that it appropriate.

3.

If your Acuity System includes the ST Analysis option, examine the ST segment:

a.

Click Setup, ST Analysis.

The ST Analysis Setup window appears.

b.

Examine the current ST segment for all active leads to ensure that the Acuity
System defined an appropriate ST analysis reference beat.

4.

If the new ECG rhythm or ST segment is not appropriate, wait until the patient’s ECG
rhythm is suitable to be learned as a normal ECG rhythm, and then initiate a relearn.

For instructions, see

“To initiate relearn of a patient’s ECG rhythm for arrhythmia and

ST-segment analyses”

on page 65.