User's Manual

Ultraview Care Network
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Setup Procedure
The setup procedure that follows assumes that the pulmonary artery catheter has
been placed. Follow your standard hospital procedure to properly place the
pulmonary artery catheter in the patient.
Figure 19-1 illustrates the components used for CO monitoring. When using a
reference solution injectate temperature probe, it should be inserted into the
cardiac output cable in place of the in-line injectate temperature probe.
When you connect the thermistor connector port of the catheter to the cardiac
output cable, the system monitors patient blood temperature (TB) and displays the
value on the screen. When you connect the injectate temperature probe, the
system detects the temperature of the injectate (TI) and displays it on the screen,
but does not trend the data. The system displays a message instructing you to
connect the probe or catheter, or to enter the computational constant (CC).
If you connect the cardiac output cable only to the catheter or only to the injectate
probe, you can enter or adjust the computational constant but you cannot monitor
cardiac output.
Figure 19-1: Cardiac output monitoring setup
To set up the system for
monitoring cardiac output:
1 Insert the cardiac output cable
into the module.
2 Attach the thermodilution
catheter to the cardiac output
cable.
3 Connect either an in-line
injectate temperature probe or
a reference solution injectate
probe to the cardiac output
cable.
Cardiac output
cable
In
j
ectate
Thermodilu-
tion catheter
In-line
injectate
temperature
probe
Thermistor
connector
Connect to module