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Home tab

The monitor screen provides the interface that you use to complete your workflow. You access the monitor's features by touching the screen.

The Home tab includes the following areas:

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Device Status area

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Device Status

Content

Navigation

The Device Status area, located at the top of the Home screen, displays the following monitor information, from left to right:

• Clinician identification. The format can be a name, ID number, or icon. Touch this area to navigate to the Clinician login.

• Device location.

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• Time and date. Touch this area to navigate to date and time settings.

• Current profile. Touch this area to navigate to the Profiles vertical tab (on the Device tab), which displays available profiles.

• Connection status (wired or wireless, and central station). The icons indicate which connections, if any, are currently attempted or active.

Icon Connection type or indicator

Ethernet

USB

Wireless

Wireless signal strength

Attempting to connect to the central station

Connected to central station

Not connected to central station

Blank No connection

• Battery condition. Estimated battery capacity is displayed in hour(s):minute(s) format.

Touch this area to navigate to the Device tab, where you can power down the device.

This area also provides interactive alarm and information messages, including a Demo mode active indicator.

Battery status

The battery status indicator displays the state of the battery.

The battery status is represented by icons in the right corner of the Device Status area:

• The monitor is connected to a power outlet and the battery is charging or is fully charged. The estimated charge rate is displayed as a percentage of capacity.

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• The monitor is not connected to a power outlet and is running on battery power. The estimated charge time remaining is displayed in the hour(s):minute(s) format. Each section of the battery status indicator represents a percentage of remaining charge.

Note

When the battery switches from AC power to battery power, no charge time is displayed while the device calculates the remaining charge time.

• The monitor is connected to a power outlet but the battery does not maintain a charge or has been removed.

When the battery is not being recharged and power becomes low, a very low-priority alarm appears in the Device Status area.

Note

Observe the remaining battery charge in the battery status indicator and plug the monitor into a power outlet as soon as you are able.

If the very low-priority alarm is dismissed or if you take no action to charge the battery, a high-priority alarm appears when battery power is critically low. Plug the monitor into a power outlet immediately to prevent it from powering down.

Failure to plug in the monitor before the remaining charge runs out causes the monitor to power down and lose all unsaved data.

Alarm and information messages

The Device Status area provides alarm and information messages that are either temporary or exist as long as the condition to which the message applies remains. Alarm or information messages may also include controls and/or behavior that you can use to manage alarm and information messages.

When the monitor detects an alarm condition, an alarm message appears. When multiple alarms occur, the device provides options to manually toggle or autoscroll through a stack of messages. You can cycle through each alarm message in sequence of priority by touching the multiple alarm toggle. Alternatively, the autoscroll option displays messages in the stack for approximately 4 seconds. These messages are stacked in order of priority: the monitor displays the highest priority messages first followed by each successive alarm message in order of priority. After presenting the entire stack of alarm messages, the autoscroll feature loops back to the top priority message and repeats the entire stack unless specific alarms auto-dismiss or you reset or cancel specific alarms. In both the manual toggle and autoscroll options, when multiple alarm messages of the same priority exist at the same time, the device displays the most recent of those alarm messages first.

Information messages instruct you to interact with the monitor in a specific way or provide information that does not require action. You can dismiss an information

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When the monitor is operating in Demo mode, which requires access to Advanced settings, the Device Status area displays an information message indicating that the

Demo mode is active, as shown below.

Any alarm messages that occur in Demo mode include a clear "DEMO MODE:" prefix as well.

Content area

The Content area displays current vital sign measurements and patient identification. It also provides relevant controls.

The Content area includes the following:

• A frame for each available parameter

• The Patient frame

• The Manual parameters frame (height, weight, pain, temperature, respiration, and

BMI, depending on configuration)

In the Triage, Spot Check, and Intervals Monitoring profiles, the Content area also includes a Save button, which you use to manually save current measurements to the

Review tab. If your monitor is connected to an external system, you can send these patient measurements to that external system as well. You can configure your monitor to automatically send these measurements any time you press Save, or you can navigate to the Review tab and then select specific records to send to the external system.

In the Continuous Monitoring profile, patient measurement data is automatically saved to the Review tab. Consequently, there is no Save button on the Home tab. (A Pause button appears in its place. See "Pause continuous monitoring (Pause mode)" in the

Connex CS section of this directions for use.) If the monitor is connected to the Connex central station, the monitor automatically sends these patient measurements to the central station as well.

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Navigation area

The Navigation area includes the following tabs:

• Home: Displays vital-sign measurements and provides shortcuts to several controls.

• Patients: Accesses the patient list, patient summary, and manual parameters.

• Alarms: Accesses global alarm response and settings controls, alarm limit settings

(available only in the Intervals Monitoring and Continuous Monitoring profiles), and patient rest mode.

• Review: Prints, deletes, and sends patient data.

• Settings: Accesses device configuration settings.

To navigate to a tab, touch the tab in the Navigation area with the corresponding name.

The active tab is highlighted.

Display lock

The display lock prevents clinician input, which may be useful when cleaning the display.

Note

The lock feature is not a security mechanism.

The display locks when any of the following occur:

• You touch Lock display now.

• No interaction with the monitor occurs for the period specified in the Display tab.

Use the Advanced tab to set or change the time it takes for the display to lock. (This requires the Advanced settings access code.)

Lock the display

Follow these steps to touch the screen without activating the controls.

1. Touch the Settings tab.

2. Touch the Device tab.

3. Touch Lock display now.

The following occurs:

• The Home screen appears.

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• A title bar with a lock icon ( ) replaces the Navigation area at the bottom of the screen.

• Patient information no longer appears at the bottom left of the screen.

• All controls on the screen are locked, except for on the title bar. If you select any area of the screen other than , a message appears.

Unlock the display

On the locked screen, touch in the title bar (located at the bottom of the screen).

The following occurs:

• Patient information appears in the Patient frame.

• The Navigation area appears.

• Home tab controls are available for use.

The display also unlocks when the following occur:

• An alarm condition.

• An externally initiated action, such as taking or stopping an NIBP measurement or upgrading software.

• Connecting a sampling line.