The customer reported that on (b)(6) 2018 between 9:00-10:00, the red alarm has self-acknowledged, and then has not been acoustically reproduced.It was stated that the spo2 dropped to 52 and the patient was immediately treated with a ventilator-bag; the patient stabilized.
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No product malfunction was found.Alarm audit logs were submitted to philips by the customer, and were reviewed by product support engineering (pse).The logs showed the device had provided alarms between 9:00am and 10:00am.According to the above extracts from the logs, at 9:12:45, a red desat alarm was generated at the central station (pic ix).The log indicated that the red alarm was accompanied by audio alarming.The logs further show that alarm silencing actions were taken by someone at the pic less than two minutes after those alarms were generated; that would imply that the pic was generating an audio alarm and someone choose to silence it.Yellow alarms were seen, after the silencing, including abp and etco2 alarms, up to 9:18:44, which was the time of the reported vtachy alarm.Regarding the spo2, this was a persistent condition that was confirmed via the logs, event/alarm bar, and the vitals data which shows the o2 sat was still 57 at 9:20.The customer was informed of the investigation findings.No parts were ordered and no repair was warranted.The device remains at the customer site.No further investigation warranted at this time.Submission of a report does not constitute an admission that medical personnel, user facility, importer, distributor, manufacturer, or product caused or contributed to the event.
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