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14 Monitoring Carbon Dioxide Setting up Mainstream and Sidestream CO
2
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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 CO2 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.
1 In the Setup CO
2
menu, select etCO
2
High or imCO
2
High and choose the upper alarm limit.
2 Select etCO
2
Low and choose the lower alarm limit.
Changing the Apnea Alarm Delay
This determines the time limit after which the monitor alarms if the patient stops breathing.
1 In the Setup CO
2
menu, select awRR.
2 In Setup awRR menu, select Apnea Time.
3 Choose the apnea alarm delay time.
WARNING Safety and effectiveness of the respiration measurement method in the detection of apnea, particularly
the apnea of prematurity and apnea of infancy, has not been established.
Prolonged delay: The selected apnea alarm delay may be prolonged by up to 17 seconds, if an apnea
occurs during the automatic zero process. This applies to the Microstream (M3015A) measurement
only.
Deriving Alarms From awRR
1 In the Setup CO
2
menu, select awRR.
2 In the Setup awRR menu, select Alarms.
3 Choose On to derive alarms from the airway respiration signal or Off to disable them.
Changing awRR Alarm Limits
1 In the Setup CO
2
menu, select awRR.
Agent
(M3014A
only)
In the Setup CO2 menu, select Agent 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