User's Manual

Ultraview Care Network
1-8
Network Basics
To aid in understanding the concept of a network operation, consider your need to
communicate between beds in a single care unit. While you are in the care unit at
a bedside monitor, you can view parameter waveforms from another bed and
control those parameters just as if you were at that remote bedside.
Advanced networking allows remote access and interaction with Clinical and Drug
Calculations, Tabular Trends, Graphic Trends, and parameters from remote beds.
Standard networking allows the remote viewing of single parameters from bedside
to bedside, and bedside to central. The Full Bed Review feature on the UCW and
Ultraview 1700 allows remote viewing of the entire bedside monitor.
If you need to review information from another unit on the network, you can do so
by specifying the unit as well as the bed. For example, if you have a need for
frequent communication between your care unit and another care unit, those units
would be designated as subnets on your networked system. This identification
typically appears on the keys in the appropriate menus.
The following figure illustrates a possible network configuration.
Figure 1-4: Network configuration
Although the presence of the network is invisible to you as you operate any
monitor on the system, decisions were made during installation to configure the
system according to your hospital’s specifications. Typically, hospitals designate a
system administrator for this task. This manual directs you to refer questions to
that individual where system operation may differ according to the decisions made
by your hospital.
Subnet #1
Intensive Care Unit
Subnet #2
Emergency Room
NETWORK