User's Manual

Physiologic Alarms
5-6 Alarms
*** DESAT Red Very Low SpO
2
Saturation.
SpO
2
value below Desaturation limit
Note—Desat limit is set 10 points below
low limit.
SpO
2
*** TACHY yyy > xxx Red Extreme Tachycardia.
Heart Rate (yyy) greater than Extreme
Tachy limit
ST/AR
Basic &
Enhanced
Arrhythmia
*** V-FIB/TACH Red Ventricular Fibrillation.
Fibrillatory wave (sinusoidal wave
between 2-10 Hz) for 4 consecutive
seconds
ST/AR
Basic &
Enhanced
Arrhythmia
*** V-TACH Red Ventricular Tachycardia.
Consecutive PVCs greater than or equal to
V-Tach Run limit and
Heart Rate greater
than V-Tach limit (xxx)
ST/AR
Basic &
Enhanced
Arrhythmia
** MULTI ST Lx, Ly Yellow Two ST leads (Lx and Ly) exceed alarm
limit elevation or depression for > 60
seconds (EASI mode or when selected).
ST/AR ST
* NURSE CALL Yellow The Telemetry button on the transceiver
has been pressed (and the system is
configured to alarm and the Telemetry
button is on.
Also initiated if the installation includes a
paging system and the Information Center
is configured for paging upon receipt of
Nurse Call signal.
Note—For IntelliVue Information Centers
Release J and later, Nurse Call is a
yellow, one star (*) alarm.
Initiated at
transceiver
or by
paging
subsystem
Physiologic (Patient) Alarms
Alarm Text Priority Condition Source