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MONITORING 
One is generated acutely, which means that if 
we get a cardiac arrest, the alarm is generated 
at the patient monitor console itself and is not 
under computer control. And so, if there is a 
life-threatening situation then this alarm would 
be generated. If it's a trend type problem in 
which we see a gradual deterioration of pres- 
sures or cardiac outputs or changes in peripheral 
resistance which is detected by the computer, 
then the computer will turn on the alarm. We 
have those two types of alarms to watch. One is 
a physiological trend and the other is an acute 
immediate alarm that we have to attend to and 
is not computer controlled. 
