Bedside renal therapist (rt) called the rt educator to the bedside to assess a situation with jet#2 ventilator.The vent had a continuous beeping sound and the heater was not working.The jet temperature window displayed 11.1 and 22.2.Rt was unable to silence or reset the alarm.During this high beeping sound, the vent worked well with all vent settings displayed correctly, and the patient still had chest wiggle.As a result of this, there was no harm done to the patient.Rt called the bunnell hotline support service.When described what was happing, the bunnell personnel suspected a problem with the internal hardware malfunction and could not be fixed while on the patientadvised to switch out the vent and take it to biomed.The vent was successfully switched out as instructed, and the patient remained stable on the new vent.
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