Setting AED and rescue parameters. ZOLL Powerheart Software
ZOLL Powerheart Software helps you manage your Powerheart AEDs, review rescues, and customize settings to match your specific needs. Use it to select the RescueCoach voice and visual prompts, customize CPR protocols, analyze patient ECGs, add patient and rescue information, export rescue data, and print reports.
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Setting AED and rescue parameters
Setting AED and rescue parameters
Important: You must have Administrator access to change rescue parameters. When starting AED Manager, log in as Administrator. If you are currently running as User, exit and restart.
To display the current configuration of an AED, click its icon or name in the AED list.
Under the Summary tab, you can customise many attributes of each AED in your inventory. The panels on the Summary window set different features of the AED:
General settings
Time settings
Language and rescue prompting
Date and time of the AED’s clock
Shock settings
CPR settings
Thresholds for delivering therapy
CPR protocols for Adult and Paediatric therapy
CPR Device settings Thresholds for CPR prompting when adult pads with CPR
Device assistance are attached to the AED.
After you finish setting the parameters, click Save Configuration or the Save to AED toolbar icon. AED Manager sends the configuration to the connected AED.
To revert all configuration settings on all configuration tabs to their original values since the last save, click the Undo All Changes toolbar icon.
To revert the AED’s settings to the values that it was shipped with, click Restore
Factory Defaults and save.
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Using AED Manager
General Settings: Set language and prompting
Use the GENERAL SETTINGS panel to set these preferences.
Preference
AED Identification
Description
The name of the AED as it appears in the AED list and on reports. A name can be up to 16 characters long. Use any of these characters: A-Z, a-z, 0-9, dash, space.
If you manage more than one AED, choose a naming convention, such as one based on the location of the units.
Choose the language the AED uses when its lid opens. The user can change to the other listed language during a rescue.
Primary Language
(For dual-language models only)
AED Overall Prompting Level Basic , Standard or Advanced
See the Powerheart G5 User’s Guide for descriptions and the prompts used by each level.
Volume Level Low —Use for an office or other quiet areas.
Maximum —use for out of doors or noisy areas.
CPR First
Startup Prompt
The AED can begin a rescue either by analysing the patient’s ECG or by instructing the rescuer to begin CPR.
Enabled —The AED provides prompts for performing CPR first.
Disabled —The AED analyses the patient’s ECG first.
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The AED provides an initial prompt when the lid is opened.
No Prompt : The AED does not play a startup prompt.
Otherwise choose one of these prompts:
Call 911 (Call Triple Zero for Australia)
Call emergency services
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Time Settings: Set the clock
To set the AED's clock:
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Select your time zone from the Time Zone/UTC Offset menu.
Click Synchronise Date/Time .
The AED’s time will be updated to the computer’s time when you click Save
Configuration .
Note: Times shown in AED Manager are not adjusted for Daylight Saving Time.
Shock Settings: Set rhythm detection thresholds
To set rhythm detection parameters, use the preferences in the SHOCK SETTINGS panel.
The AED can hold different protocols for adult and paediatric pads.
Preference
Same Energy After
Conversion
Description
When enabled, the AED delivers the previous defibrillation energy the next time a shock is required if the patient’s rhythm becomes non-shockable rhythm.
The number of shocks that can be delivered before the AED enters CPR mode.
Maximum Shocks Per
Sequence
Shock Energy Protocol Select the protocol for the energy delivered by a shock. If the AED has paediatric defibrillation pads attached, it uses the number in the Paediatric field.
VF/VT Rate Minimum heart rate at which the AED detects ventricular fibrillation and determines the rhythm is shockable. If the AED has paediatric defibrillation pads attached, it uses the number in the Paediatric field.
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Preference
SVT rate
Description
Adds discrimination for SVT (supraventricular tachycardia) to the shockable/ non-shockable decision. If the AED has paediatric defibrillation pads attached, it uses the number in the Paediatric field.
OFF (no monitoring for SVT):
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Heart rates below the VF/VT rate are never shockable
Heart rates above the VF/VT rate are always shockable
No Therapy (monitoring for SVT, but therapy delivery depends on the following):
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• Heart rates below the VF/VT rate are never shockable
Heart rates above the VF/VT rate are always classified as shockable or nonshockable based on their waveform morphologies
160-300 :
Heart rates below the VF/VT rate are never shockable
Heart rates above the set SVT rate are always shockable
Heart rates between the VF/VT rate and the set SVT rate are classified as shockable or non-shockable based on their waveform morphologies
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Setting AED and rescue parameters
CPR Settings: Set rescue parameters
The AED can provide different rescue protocols for adults and children (paediatric).
Preference
Session Type
CPR Timeout
CPR Metronome Prompt
CPR Metronome Rate
End session when
Number of Sets
Breaths per set
Compressions per set
Description
Traditional CPR (compressions and breaths) and Compressions only use the same settings. Compressions only uses CPR Timeout and the metronome settings only.
Length of time, in seconds, that each CPR session lasts. The countdown timer on the AED tracks the remaining time.
Marks the pace for the rescuer to match for chest compressions.
Press —Spoken prompt of “press” given at the selected CPR
Metronome rate.
Ping —AED provides a mechanical metronome sound at the CPR
Metronome rate.
No Metronome —No sound
The pace of the metronome prompt in beats per minute.
This preference determines the total time of a session.
Sets complete —The CPR session ends when the number of CPR sets expires. Each set includes the number of compressions per set and number of breaths per set.
Time expires —The session ends when the CPR timer reaches zero.
The final set of compressions and breaths might be only partially complete.
If using traditional CPR, the number of times the rescuer is prompted to perform the combination of compressions and breaths.
Number of breaths to give before beginning another round of compressions.
Number of chest compressions to give before providing breaths.
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CPR Device Settings: Set CPR Device thresholds
To set the thresholds for CPR prompting for rescues that use the CPR Device, modify the preferences in the CAD SETTINGS panel.
Preference
Compression rate
(compressions/minute)
Compression Depth (cm)
Description
Minimum : If the rescuer performs compressions under this rate, the
AED prompts, “Press faster”.
Maximum : If the rescuer performs compressions above this rate, the
AED prompts, “Press slower”.
Minimum : If the rescuer does not reach this compression depth, the
AED prompts, “Press harder and fully release”.
Maximum : If the rescuer presses to a depth greater than this, the AED prompts, “Press softer”.
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