Very Large Stepdown Unit With Telemetry Monitoring - Philips M3150B Installation And Service Manual

Network Design
Very Large
Stepdown Unit
with Telemetry
Monitoring
4-16
Site Planning and Preparation
When the number of patient monitors in a Stepdown Unit exceeds 24, a second System
Communications Controller is required. This is shown in Figure 4-6.
Equipment for this installation is the following:
• 48 beds with no hardwired bedside monitors
• 32 telemetry monitors on 4 telemetry mainframes
• 2 Information Centers each with 16 patient (Option #A16) capability
• 2 System Communications Controller
With 2 System Communications Controllers, the Information Centers and telemetry
mainframes must be assigned to specific SCCs. In this example, 16 telemetry monitors and 1
M3150 Information Centers covering 24 patients are networked to each SCC.
Information Center
Bed1-Bed24
Tel1 - Tel6
Tel1
Tel8
Tel9
Tel116
Figure 4-6 Very Large Stepdown Unit with Telemetry Monitoring
In such a large system, clinicians must know which patients are on each SCC network and
which telemetry monitors can be used with each Information Center. Clear labeling of bed
and telemetry assignments will assist clinicians in assigning telemetry monitors to patients.
Unused telemetry monitors for each Information Center will appear in the Setup Display list
as available for patient monitoring.
Information Center
(#A16)
SCC1
(#A16)
Bed25-Bed48
Tel17 - Tel32
Tel17
Tel25
SCC2
Tel24
Tel32