User's Manual

Setting up all CO
2
Measurements 14 Monitoring Carbon Dioxide
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Suppressing Sampling (not Mainstream CO
2
)
To temporarily stop sampling,
♦ in the Setup CO
2
menu, select Pump 15Min Off or use the CO
2
Pump Off SmartKey if
available.
Selecting Pump 15Min Off again before fifteen minutes have passed resets the timer to fifteen
minutes.
To re-start the pump,
♦ in the Setup CO
2
menu, select Pump On.
Changing CO
2
Alarms
This refers to CO
2
specific alarms. See the Alarms section for general alarm information.
You change CO
2
alarm settings in the Setup CO
2
menu.
To switch etCO2 alarms on and off:
♦ Select etCO
2
Alarms and toggle between On and Off.
To change the etCO
2
alarm limits:
• Touch the high limit on the alarm limits menu button. Choose the high alarm limit from the pop-
up list that opens.
• Touch the low limit on the alarm limits menu button. Choose the low alarm limit from the pop-up
list that opens.
O
2
(M3014A
only)
In the Setup CO
2
menu, select Oxy. Corr and select a value between 20% and
100%, the default value is 20%. If you are not measuring the expired O
2
, estimate it by
subtracting
5% from the inspired O
2
then select the nearest value from the list.
Humidity At installation, the monitor is configured to automatically apply either Body Temperature
Pressure Saturated (BTPS) or Ambient Temperature Pressure Dry (ATPD). To see
which, go to the Setup CO
2
menu, and scroll down to look at Hum. Corr or
HumidityCorr.
N
2
O
(M3016A
mainstream
and M3015A
microstream
only)
In the Setup CO
2
menu, select N
2
O Corr. and turn on or off. If N
2
O is present
in the ventilation gas mixture, you must turn this on.
If the N
2
O correction is not available in the Setup CO
2
menu, the CO
2
measurement in your MMS Extension does not require N
2
O correction or it is setup
with Gas Corr. (see below).
Gas
(M3014A
only)
In the Setup CO
2
menu, select Gas Corr. and select Helium, N
2
O or turn off.
If Helium or N
2
O is present in the ventilation gas mixture, you must make the
appropriate selection.
If the Gas correction is not available in the Setup CO
2
menu, the CO
2
measurement
in your MMS Extension does not require N
2
O or Helium correction or the N
2
O
correction is setup with N
2
O Corr. (see above).
Agent
(M3014A
only)
In the Setup CO
2
menu, select Agt. Corr. and select the concentration of the
anesthetic agent (between 0.0% and 20.0%). If an anesthetic agent is present in the
ventilation gas mixture, you must select the appropriate concentration.
Correction