The customer reports that they entered the patient's room and noted that patient's oxygen saturation was 46, and that alarm was off on the bedside monitor.The patient was immediately placed on 100% nrb (non-rebreather mask), hospital staff was notified.Oxygen saturation rebounded to 100% but patient remained minimally responsive, eventually becoming more alert.The venous blood gas (vbg) showed hypercarbia.The patient was placed on bipap machine and transferred to intensive care unit (icu).The device was in use on a patient at the time of event.There was an adverse event reported.The nurse confirmed that the patient's o2 sat was 46, and failed to alert of the drop in oxygen saturation.
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The customer reports that they entered the patient's room and noted that patient's oxygen saturation was 46, and that alarm was off on the bedside monitor.The patient was immediately placed on 100% nrb (non-rebreather mask), hospital staff was notified.Oxygen saturation rebounded to 100% but patient remained minimally responsive, eventually becoming more alert.The venous blood gas (vbg) showed hypercarbia.The patient was placed on bipap machine and transferred to intensive care unit (icu).The device was in use on a patient at the time of event.There was an adverse event reported.The nurse confirmed that the patient's o2 sat was 46, and failed to alert of the drop in oxygen saturation.The service engineer was dispatched to the customer site to assess the clinical logs.The service engineer reviewed the logs and confirmed that the mx40 overrode the bedside settings, therefore, turning off the spo2 alarm when the patient was being moved to another central station.The product support engineer confirmed that it is normal behavior of the telemetry device to override the bedside device if the telemetry device is being used as the source of the ecg measurement.Based on the information provided by the field service engineer (fse) the issue resolved after changing the configuration at the piic ix central station, to always have spo2 alarms set to on by default.It was it is concluded that the reported problem was the result of an incorrect configuration.
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