User's Manual Part 9

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Monitor Configuration
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
About Factory Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
About Default Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
About Temporary Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
About Acuity-Defined Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Overview
The monitor can be configured in various ways.
Each facility can define as many default configurations as required to both meet the
needs of individual departments and units and to conform to the facility’s general
methods and standards.
• Each time the patient mode is changed, the monitor settings return to this default
configuration.
• Each time the monitor is turned on, the clinician chooses whether to retain the
most recently used temporary, patient-specific settings (see below) or to reset
the monitor to its default configuration.
Clinicians can use the monitor buttons to temporarily customize settings to meet the
needs of individual patients. These custom settings can be retained through a monitor
shut-down and restart, but they are lost if the patient mode is changed.
When a wireless monitor is in communication with an Acuity Central Station, Acuity
imposes several monitor settings to assure conformance and consistency among all
monitors on a network. These settings override the factory configuration, the default
configuration, and any temporary patient-specific settings. If the monitor power is cycled
while the monitor is no longer in communication with Acuity, the monitor powers up with
the default configuration or with the custom settings for the previously monitored patient.