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Managing Patients
Introduction
Managing patients includes the following tasks:
îš„ Admitting patients to the monitor.
îš„ Discharging patients from the monitor.
îš„ Viewing other patients.
Admit
Overview
You can admit a patient to the monitor from the bedside or a central station. There are
three ways to admit a patient to the monitor from the bedside:
îš„ Standard Admit
îš„ Quick Admit
îš„ Automatic Admit
WARNING
ALARM ACTIVATION—No alarms sound or display on the
monitor until a patient is admitted to the monitor. The monitor will
not alarm if an unadmitted patient enters an alarm condition. You
must admit the patient to activate alarms, automatic alarm printing
and the ALARM HISTORY.
Admitting a patient to the monitor is essential. When the monitor is discharged, the
following message displays near the middle of the screen to alert you to admit your
patient:
ALL ALARMS OFF
ADMIT PATIENT TO ACTIVATE ALARMS
In addition to the message, a discharge alert (beep) can be set in monitor defaults. The
discharge alert sounds periodically when the monitor is in a discharged state and the
display is on.
Standard Admit
The information required to admit patients to the monitor varies by the monitoring
mode and patient-monitor type.
To manually admit a patient to the monitor, follow this procedure:
1. Select MORE MENUS > ADMIT MENU.
2. Use the Trim Knob control to select the following patient information:
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