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System for patient monitoring

  • US 20010029321A1
  • Filed: 02/26/2001
  • Published: 10/11/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/25/2000
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system (1) for patient monitoring comprising at least one body sensor (2a) for detecting a physiological parameter, as well as, connected downstream from the body sensor (2a), at least one of a body signal processing unit (3;

  • 204, 206) and a therapy device (2, 2

    ) designed for acting on a patient (P), and a mobile radio end unit (7;

    700) designed for transmitting data from at least one of the body signal processing unit (3;

    204, 200) and the therapy device (2;

    2

    ) to a central monitoring station (1C), said mobile radio end unit (7;

    700) being operable in a cellular mobile radiotelephone network (1B) having a multiplicity of preferably ground-based base stations (8.1 through 8.3), wherein a base station coordinate memory unit (13) is provided and a rough locator unit (12) for a rough determination of a patient'"'"'s current location based on rough positioning information obtained from a current base station connection of the mobile radio end unit in the mobile radiotelephony network, and further comprising a fine locator unit incorporating a direction-finding transmitter (300) in the mobile radiotelephone end unit (7, 700) and a separate direction-finder device (310) for fine tracking of a direction-finding signal, and thus of the mobile radiotelephone end unit (7, 700), after the rough location determination.

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