Monitoring, predicting and treating clinical episodes

Apparatus for use with a plurality of clinicians, the apparatus comprising:

• a location sensing system that comprises a plurality of location sensors, the location sensing system being configured to:
• identify respective locations of a plurality of clinicians, and
• generate a location-sensing-system signal in response thereto;
• and
• a patient-monitoring system comprising:
• a clinical sensor, configured to measure a clinical parameter of a patient, and to generate a clinical-sensor signal in response thereto;
• and
• a control unit configured to:
• identify a historical alert-response time for each of the clinicians,
• normalize the historical alert-response time for each of the clinicians to account for (i) respective historical distances of each of the clinicians from respective patients and (ii) respective historical numbers of alerts each of the clinicians had received within respective previous given time periods,
• in response to the clinical-sensor signal, determine that an alert event has occurred, and
• in response to determining that the alert event has occurred:
• in response to the location-sensing-system signal, identify the distance of each of the clinicians from the patient,
• identify a respective number of alerts that each of the clinicians has received within a previous given time period,
• identify a subset of the clinicians in response to (i) the distance of each of the clinicians from the patient, (ii) the number of alerts each of the clinicians has received within the previous given time period, and (iii) the normalized historical alert-response times, and
• communicate an alert to the identified subset of the clinicians before communicating the alert to any other clinician.