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AssigneeOhmeda Inc.
InventorsJohn P. Huttenhoff, Trent L. Williams, Christopher R. Goodrich, Graham B. Lukey
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An alarm prioritizing system for use with a medical device categorizes the alarms into high, medium and low priority alarms. With the medium and high priority alarms, there is a visual indication and a audible sound that cannot be fully muted. With certain alarms, however, the operator can, by a positive and deliberate input, de-escalate the alarm priority from a medium priority alarm to a low priority alarm where the audible sound is muted and only a visual indication is thereafter provided. There is a time delay between the time the user actually starts the de-escalation process before it is effected to enable the user to properly identify the alarm and its location on a visual display panel. As a further feature, the same visual indication shifts from a medium priority alarm location to a low priority alarm location.
An alarm system for recognizing and alerting a user to a fault condition in a medical device, said alarm system comprising a means to activate an alarm responsive to detection of the fault condition, said alarm system having an audible annunciation and a display panel for displaying a visual indication of said alarm, said alarm having a first state wherein said audible annunciation is activated and said visual indication is activated to display said alarm at a first location on said display panel, said alarm further having a second state wherein said visual alarm is activated to display said alarm at a second location on said display panel and said audible alarm is silenced and means operable by user action to de-escalate said alarm from said first state to said second state, whereby said visual alarm indication is displayed on said display panel at said second location and said audible annunication is muted.
A system for the de-escalating of an alarm priority in a medical device, said system comprising:
In an alarm system for a medical device with prioritized alarms, a method of controlling the priority of alarms activated upon various fault conditions, said method comprising:
An alarm system for recognizing and alerting a user to a fault condition in a medical device, said alarm system having alarms activated by fault conditions, said alarms being prioritized into higher and lower priorities depending upon the severity of the consequences of the particular alarm condition activating the alarm, said alarms having different means for communicating the alarm to a user depending on the higher or lower priority, and an input means to enable a user to de-escalate at least one but not all of said alarms to reduce said priority from the higher priority alarm to the lower priority alarm.
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