Fresenius Medical Care multiFiltrate User Manual

Chapter 5: Alarm processing
Fresenius Medical Care multiFiltrate IFU-EN-UK 15A-2015 5-1
5 Alarm processing
5.1 Acknowledging a message repeatedly
For the safety systems, the relevant alarm limits and alarm conditions
described in Chapter 12 "Specifications", under "Dialysate circuit and
safety systems" and "Extracorporeal blood circuit and safety systems",
also apply.
Operators must stay close enough to the device to be able to notice any
emitted visual or audible alarms at all times.
If the following alarms and warnings are repeatedly acknowledged
without being corrected, this can endanger the patient as follows:
Warning
Patient hazard through repeatedly acknowledging a message
 Always correct the problem that caused the message before
acknowledging it.
Note
When alarms and warnings occur, follow the information given in the
messages, as well as any explanations given in the Help function "?".
Alarms / warnings Possible patient hazard
Loss of pressure at the venous
vascular access
Arterial and venous pressure
alarms
Extraneous blood loss
Bleeding into tissue
Haemolysis, through kinks in the
tubing system
Anticoagulation alarms
(e.g., heparin pump alarms)
Loss of blood through
coagulation in the extracorporeal
blood circuit
Wrong dosage of
anticoagulation medium
Blood leak alarms Loss of blood into filtrate /
plasma
Isolated citrate dosage with
balancing switched off
Citrate accumulation /
disruption of acid-base status
Low temperature warning Hypothermia

Fresenius Medical Care multiFiltrate Specifications

General

Brand	Fresenius Medical Care
Model	multiFiltrate
Category	Medical Equipment
Language	English