SYSTEM FOR MONITORING CAREGIVERS AND EQUIPMENT
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Abstract
A hospital monitoring system for monitoring hospital personnel, a plurality of patient locations for patients, and associated devices is configured to control the associated devices based on the presence of hospital personnel or alarms.
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40 Claims
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1-20. -20. (canceled)
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21. A nontransitory method of monitoring a patient room of a healthcare facility, the method comprising;
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monitoring a patient room for a signal indicating presence of a caregiver in the patient room, detecting an alarm of at least one piece of patient care equipment in the patient room, if the caregiver is present in the patient room when the alarm occurs, permitting the alarm to sound for a predetermined amount of time and then signaling the at least one piece of patient care equipment to silence the alarm after the predetermined amount of time has elapsed, and if the caregiver is not present in the patient room when the alarm occurs, signaling the at least one piece of patient care equipment to silence the alarm in response to the caregiver'"'"'s presence being detected in the patient room after the alarm sounds. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40)
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