Patient monitoring system
First Claim
1. A medical monitoring system, comprising:
- at least one central station that receives vital signs data concerning a plurality of patients; and
at least one patient monitor which monitors a particular one of the plurality of patients by collecting vital signs data from the particular patient, and establishes communications with at least one central station to communicate the received vital signs data to the at least one central station via one or more wireless transmitter/receivers,said at least one central station which stores the identity of the particular patient and, in the event that communication between the at least one central station and a said at least one patient monitor is lost and then restored, being programmed to transmit a request to the at least one patient monitor for a confirmation that the at least one patient monitor was continuously monitoring the particular patient during the time communication was lost between said at least one central station and said at least one patient monitor.
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Abstract
A wireless patient monitor is adapted to communicate with any one of plural medical telemetry networks, each having one or more central stations, where each network is configured to communicate via wireless communications using one of multiple different communications settings. The monitor includes one or more sensor inputs for receiving vital signs data from a patient, a wireless transceiver, and a controller coupled to receive the vital signs data via the one or more sensor inputs and to communicate with a network via the transceiver. The monitor also includes a display device and is controllable by the controller to automatically display a notification to a user of the monitor upon establishing communications with the at least one central station. There is also a method of monitoring a patient and a wireless medical telemetry system.
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9 Claims
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1. A medical monitoring system, comprising:
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at least one central station that receives vital signs data concerning a plurality of patients; and at least one patient monitor which monitors a particular one of the plurality of patients by collecting vital signs data from the particular patient, and establishes communications with at least one central station to communicate the received vital signs data to the at least one central station via one or more wireless transmitter/receivers, said at least one central station which stores the identity of the particular patient and, in the event that communication between the at least one central station and a said at least one patient monitor is lost and then restored, being programmed to transmit a request to the at least one patient monitor for a confirmation that the at least one patient monitor was continuously monitoring the particular patient during the time communication was lost between said at least one central station and said at least one patient monitor. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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