Users Manual

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Precautions about the Pacemaker
WARNING
 Minute ventilation rate-adaptive implantable pacemakers can
occasionally interact with certain cardiac monitoring and diagnostic
equipment, causing the pacemakers to pace at their maximum
programmed rate. The cardiac monitoring and diagnostic equipment
may possibly send wrong information.
If such event occurs, disconnect the cardiac monitoring and diagnostic
equipment, or follow the procedures described in the operation manual
of the pacemaker.
(For more details, contact FUKUDA DENSHI personnel, your
institution’s professionals, or your pacemaker distributors.)
 Rate meters may continue to count the pacemaker rate during
occurrences of cardiac arrest or some arrhythmias. Do not rely entirely
upon rate meter alarms. Keep pacemaker patients under close
surveillance.
Reference
“Minute Ventilation Rate-Adaptive Pacemakers”
FDA alerts health professionals that minute ventilation rate-adaptive
implantable pacemakers can occasionally interact with certain cardiac
monitoring and diagnostic equipment, causing pacemakers to pace at their
maximum programmed rate.
[October 14, 1998 – FDA]
Precautions for Using This Equipment
WARNING
 Do not connect cables not authorized by Fukuda Denshi to any I/O
connector. If unspecified cable is connected, not only that the equipment
cannot deliver its maximum performance, the equipment may be
damaged and safety cannot be ensured.
 Do not use this equipment with multiple patients simultaneously.
CAUTION
Do not hold the cable part and hang or swing the transmitter. It may cause
wire break, injury, or damage to the surrounding equipment.