Fluke Biomedical DPM2 Plus - Manual (Page 9)

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DPM2 Plus Digital Pressure Meter
Introduction
W Warning
Read “Safety Information” before you use the Meter
Many healthcare devices used in hospitals incorporate positive and negative
pressures that may range from one atmosphere or greater (negative or positive)
in either liquid or gaseous form. The DPM2 Plus Digital Pressure Meter
(hereafter “the Meter”) is designed to measure these pressures to assist in
repair and quality control of medical instrumentation.
Specific applications include dialysis equipment, ophthalmic lasers, automatic
tourniquets, surgical suction, ventilators, and others.
The Meter can be used to measure and verify the positive or negative pressures
from pneumatic as well as hydraulic sources. Some of the Meter applications
are:
• Checking static cuff pressure and cuff pressure variations of pneumatic
tourniquets, noninvasive blood pressure monitors, sphygmomanometers, etc.
• Measuring positive pressures of compressor outputs in ventilators,
respirators, compressor pumps, etc.
• Checking occlusion, operating, and purge pressures in volumetric infusion
pumps.
• Verifying negative pressures in diagnostic and surgical suction equipment
such as thermotic drainage.
• Verifying vacuum levels in eye surgery equipment such as extraction and
irrigation systems.
• Checking dialysate pressure in kidney dialysis machines.
• Sending output to a strip chart recorder to keep long-term records of applied
pressure as a function of voltage.