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Technical Services - Products - Vigilance CEDV Driver

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Warning!

The software is distributed solely for the purposes of documentation and is not designed to support clinical decisions in the treatment and diagnosis of humans.

Connecting the power supply cord of a PC to the wall socket may cause the leakage current in the system to exceed the limit specified for medical equipment. A mains powered PC should be supplied from an isolation transformer. Remember the RS232 cable connects the PC to the Vigilance Monitor, and thus indirectly to the patient.

It is strongly recommended that an Electrical Safety Inspection Test be carried out on any mains power supplied computer on which the driver software is installed. This should be carried out according to AS/NZS Standard 3551:1996 or equivalent.

The Edwards Vigilance Data Logger software is a stand-alone application that allows a PC to monitor and record data sent from a Vigilance CCO Monitor. This manual covers Edward’s current software (version 5.02E) and it’s latest release (version 6.00) that adds further functionality to the user interface and three new parameters, EDV (End Diastolic Volume), ESV (End Systolic Volume) and EF (Ejection Fraction).

This driver will greatly enhance the clinical use of the Vigilance Monitor, since patient data can now be archived and viewed after a study. Further data manipulation and graphing can also be carried out using standard PC applications such as Excel.

The program provides data logging and display of parameters transmitted by the Vigilance CCO monitor.

The standard parameters, CCO, CI, SvO2, BT, CCI and SQI are displayed in a format similar to the main display of the Vigilance Monitor.

The latest parameters, EF, EDV and ESV can now also be displayed and logged, with the user interface emulating the latest Vigilance Front Panel display.

All available parameters sent by the Vigilance can be logged.

The latest values of all requested data are displayed in a table for easy viewing.

In addition to the parameter data, all faults, alerts and alarms provided by the Vigilance are read by the program and recorded in the log file.

Therapeutic Events can be entered by clinicians and stored in the log file.

Ability to change the Colour and Line Thickness for each plot.

Error handling is provided by the program to handle cable disconnection and parameter availability.

Online help available in the form of a WinHelp file version of the manual.

Automatic detection of decimal point character based on language settings of PC.

Copy protection through the use of a parallel port security key (Standard Version only).

Operator Manual (Vigilance_User_Manual_v2-1-1.pdf, 4.7MB)

Note: These publications are supplied in Adobe® Acrobat® Portable Document Format (PDF) and will take a few minutes to download. They may be viewed using the free Adobe Reader® software, available from Adobe's web site. The Reader is available for Apple Macintosh, MS Windows, Palm, PocketPC and various Unix operating systems.