Product Manual

5-4 CARESCAPE V100 Vital Signs Monitor 2036991-001C
Alarms: Silencing and Acknowledging an Alarm
Silencing and Acknowledging an Alarm
Silence Button
To silence a patient-related alarm (limit and parameter status alarms) at
anytime, press the Silence button. The silence icon (a bell) lights red to indicate
that audible alarms have been silenced for 2 minutes.
Some patient- and system-related alarms are acknowledgeable. (Refer to the
Alarms Table at the back of this section.) For acknowledgeable alarms that are
active when the Silence button is pressed, any associated audible or visual
indication is removed and any associated alarm message code is no longer
displayed.
The silence icon has three states:
 Solid red: alarm silence is active.
 Blinking red: alarm silence is not active and at least one alarm condition is
active.
 Off: alarm silence is not active and no alarm condition is active.
Alarm Sounds
The monitor produces three different alarm sounds based upon the priority of
the alarm: high, medium and low priority.
 The high-priority alarm sounds three high-pitched tones followed by two
high-pitched tones.
 The medium-priority alarm sounds three high-pitched tones.
 The low-priority alarm sounds one single tone.
NOTE: When alarms of multiple priorities are active, only the highest-priority
alarm sounds.
Alarms and Priorities
For a listing of errors codes refer to the table at the end of this section.