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ZOLL Z Vent Ventilator Operator’s Guide
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Chapter 5
Alarms
This chapter provides a detailed description and comprehensive reference for the
ZOLL Z Vent ventilator’s alarms. This chapter addresses the following:
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Describes alarm types and priorities
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Provides a comprehensive list of alarms
Alarm Overview
To safeguard the patient, the ventilator continuously monitors the patient, device, and
environment to ensure that all of the systems are functioning as intended. When device detects
a problem, it triggers an alarm and displays a Smart Help message to alert you.
Smart Help presents, a multi-line message in the upper left-hand corner of the display screen.
This screen area is the Alarm Message Center (AMC). The AMC displays the alarm name with
a series of instructions to help you resolve the alarm. The device prioritizes alarms based on the
risk to the patient and always presents the alarm with the greatest risk to the patient first. All
messages are context-based and suggest what is causing the alarm, as well as show how it can
be resolved.
The Alarm Message Center (AMC) contains the information and instructions for all active
alarms, as shown in Figure 5-1.