Carescape Telemetry T14

The GE CARESCAPE telemetry T14 transmitter is used to send patients’ ECG data to the ApexPro receiver system. Once the data is received by the ApexPro receiver, it gets processed and transmitted through the dedicated ethernet interface to a CIC Pro center for further processing and display. The GE CARESCAPE T14 telemetry transmitter uses 2 AA batteries. It features 3 buttons. One button verify the leads. Another creates a 20-second printable graph strip. The last one creates a blue border around the event bed and sounds an alarm at the CIC Pro center.

• Parameter Excellence: Atrial fibrillation trending helps improve and speed clinical decision making by providing a visual display of the current state, duration and frequency of a patient’s atrial fibrillation events. Clinicians can also adjust the ST segment alarms (ECG waveforms) to reduce nuisance alarms and standardize telemetry with the capabilities and the functionality of GE bedside monitors.
• Remote Servicing and Updates: CARESCAPE Telemetry can be remotely serviced to help improve hospital efficiency and reduce downtime.
• New reporting capabilities: Enhanced reporting capabilities to help improve and facilitate clinician and hospital reporting requirements.

GE CARESCAPE T14 Transmitter Specifications

Dimensions

• Height: 5.38 in (13.7 cm)
• Width: 2.875 in (7.3 cm)
• Depth: 0.91 in (2.3 cm)
• Weight:0.37 lbs (170.1 g)

Power Requirements

• Battery Type: ANSI/NEDA 15 A, 1.5V AA alkaline (2 required)
• Battery Life: 65 hours
• Polarity: Electronic reverse polarity protection

Transmission

• Channel spacing: 25 kHz
• Frequency Stability: ± 0.0001% of assigned channel frequency
• Bit rate: 10 kbps
• Antenna: Internal Inverted F Antenna (IFA)

ECG

• Multi-channel configuration (5- or 6- leadwire): I, II, III, Va, Vb, aVR, aVL, aVF
• Leads analyzed simultaneously: Four (I, II, III, V)
• Single-channel (3-leadwire) configuration: I, II or III, configurable
• Heart rate detection: 30 to 300 BPM
• QRS detection range: 0.5 to 5 mV
• Frequency response: up to 38 Hz (-3 dB),/li>
• A/D converter Resolution: 10 bits, 9.75 µV (RTI)
• Sample rate: 240 samples/seconds

Operating Conditions

• Temperature: 5 to 40° C
• Relative Humidity: 15 to 95% (non-condensing)

Transport and storage conditions

• Temperature: -40 to 70° C
• Relative Humidity: 15 to 95% (non-condensing)
• Pressure: 475 to 1200 hPa

Device Specifications

• Water resistance: IEC 60529 IPX7 rating (can survive inadvertent submersion)
• Input configuration: 3, 5 or 6 electrodes
• Frequency range: 1395.025 - 1399.975 MHz
• Power output: 5 mW (Meets FCC requirements for Part 95.)
• Bandwidth: 11.9 KHz
• Modulation: GFSK
• Serial I/O ports: 2
• Alarm pause: transmitted and indicated via LED
• Graph request: transmitted
• Event Marker: Transmitted
• Maximum transmitters: 199 active within WTMS at a single facility
• Dynamic range: ± 5 mV (RTI)
• input offset: ± 300 mV (RTI)
• input impedance: 15 M ohm minimum differential @ 10 Hz
• ECG gain Selection: 5, 10, 20, 40 mm/m (RTI)
• ECG gain Accuracy: ± 5% @ 15 Hz
• Common Mode rejection: 100 dB minimum @ 60 Hz
Defibrillator protection: ± 5000 VDC, 360 joules into 100 ohm
• Defibrillator recovery time: Transmitter recovers within 5 seconds
• Pacemaker Detection: ± 2 mV to ± 700 mV (RTI); 100 µsec to 2 msec; either polarity; on multiple leads
• Patient leakage current: meets UL/IEC 60601-1
• Serial Communications: 2 ports at 9600 baud asynchronous