Can anyone help me???

I am trying to program a scenario and am having a terrible time getting the trends to behave themselves.  Here is what I am trying to do:

My initial trend has an increased BP, PCO2, HR and Temp.  also it has a decreased O2 sat.  what I am trying to do is add an option to cool the patient which will only affect the temperature but leave the other inital trends unaffected.  when I try to add another trend for cooling, it seems that the new temperature trend to cool the patient is battling the initial trend to raise the temp.  Is there anyway that when I add a trend for only some of the parameters, it overwrites those but leaves all the others alone??  i.e. when I cool the patient, the new cooling trend replaces the old cooling trend, but the BP, HR and various other trends stay with the initial trend? it seems that this is a very basic and elementary functon that could not have been overlooked by the program, I must simply be missing something.

Any help would be great!

Thanks.

TN

Hi TN,

It sounds like you want to change just one thing and leave the others - correct.  Open your current trend and make the change you want to the one item and then save it as a new trend.  Then you will have your old trend and the new one.  Of course you then need to change out the trend in your scenario to the new one so that it does what you want it to but after that it is easy.  Also make sure to have your HR wait for the appro amt of time before it kicks in at the new level or it looks really silly and also screws everything up.  Hope this helps!

Dani

Another option would be to remove the temp trend from the other vitals and create a trend just for temp that runs concurrent with the other vitals' trend, then when an event changes just the temp, start the new temp trend and have it stop the previous temp trend.

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Michael Young