And here is a brief explanation on how to configure your transport monitors to capture alarm reports to the database, and automatically print or store to a storage location whenever a connection to the XDS Print Server is available.

1. Go to config mode
2. Go to Databases>Database config. Make sure that the Print Database is set to Small or Large. The factory default is Large.
3. Go to Reports>Setup printers. Set the printer to "Database". Then select the desired paper size (this same paper size must be selected in XDS, otherwise the reports may refuse to print).
4. Go to Recordings>Setup recordings. Select Alarm, and change the recorder to "Printer". This ensures that any alarm recording will also be sent to the system printer, which is now set to "Database".
5. Go to Alarms>Alarm Recording. Select all the alarms that should trigger a capture (eg, HR red & yellow etc)
6. Go to Reports>Setup reports. Select “Realtime Rep” as the report, and change the target device to “Database”. Repeat this step with any other manual report you want to store during transport (eg. ST-MAP report, 12-lead reports).
7. Save all these changes under the monitor settings block. If the default profile and blocks are locked, you will need to create a new block, assign it to a new profile and make that profile default.

Now, whenever one of the alarms selected in step 4 is triggered, the IntelliVue will automatically capture the alarm and create an alarm recording report that will be stored in the database. The exact number of reports that can be stored depends on the types of reports etc, but a minimum of 50 single waveform alarm strips can be stored when the database size is set to “Large”. When the database is full, the monitor will display “Print job can’t queue” on the status line whenever a new recording is triggered and will not store any new recordings until the old ones are printed or deleted.

You can also manually trigger any of the reports you set in step 6, and they will also print to the database.

At any time, you can go to "Reports>Reports job list" to see the events that are waiting to be printed. You can delete them selectively (stop report), or as a batch if necessary (stop all reports).

When the monitor is connected to a PC with XDS application (direct or via network), it will automatically print the reports, or send them to a patient-specific folder as PDF, PNG or any other format as defined in the XDS application.

Chandana Samaranayake MD

Chandana Samaranayake is an employee of Philips Healthcare.
All comments made on this forum are made on a personal capacity, and do not necessarily represent the views of my employer.

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