Monitoring Overview

X Series Advanced Monitoring Functions

The X Series unit provides an array of standard, and optional, monitoring functions, and allows you to view the vital signs measurements that these functions provide in a variety of formats. The X Series unit also allows you to set alarm limits for each monitoring function. Should a patient’s vital signs measurements go outside of these limits, the X Series issues an audible alarm tone and displays visual alarm indications to alert you.

If the X Series unit is powered off for less than 2 minutes, all patient monitoring parameter settings are retained. If the X Series unit is powered off for 2 minutes or longer, the unit operates as if there is a New Patient and all patient-specific parameters (alarm limits, defibrillator energy, etc.) are reset to their default values.

The X Series unit can monitor the following patient vital signs:

•      ECG

•      Heart Rate

•      Respiration Rate

•      Temperature

•      Invasive Pressures (IBP)

•      Non-invasive Blood Pressure (NIBP)

•      Capnography (CO2)

•      Pulse Oximetry (SpO2)

Monitoring Display Options

The X Series Advanced unit gives you great flexibility in how you display a patient’s vital signs

information. By pressing the Display/Home button on the front panel, you can successively display the patient’s vital signs information in these three windows:

•      Waveform Display window, which initially displays an ECG waveform trace and numeric displays for each monitoring function.

•      Trends Status window, which displays a report listing vital signs measurements that the X Series unit logs automatically, and the primary ECG waveform trace.

•      Large Numerics Display window, on which large numeric displays of all vital signs measurements appear.

The Waveform Display window appears when you power on the X Series unit. Initially, the Waveform Display window displays a single ECG waveform trace. All other monitored values appear in numeric display areas at the bottom of the screen:

You can display up to four waveform traces that you specify on the Waveform Display window. You will determine how to add waveform traces to this window later in this chapter.

Press the Home/Display button when viewing the Waveform Display window, and the unit displays the Trends Status window. The Trends Status window reports the patient’s vital sign measurements, which the X Series logs automatically at a configurable interval (see the following chapter, Trends, for more detailed information about the Trends Status window). The primary ECG waveform trace appears above the Trends report:



Press the Home/Display button when viewing the Trends Status window and the Large
Numerics Display window appears. The patient’s vital signs measurements appear in large
labeled numeric displays; no waveform trace appears on this screen: