Patient monitoring system and method for monitoring the physiological status of a patient
AssigneeKoninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
InventorsGuenter Gegner, Harald Greiner, Martin Bufe
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Abstract
The invention relates to a patient monitoring system comprising at least one monitoring unit (24) for monitoring the physiological status of a patient and a host system (14) comprising a network of access points (16, 18, 20) for wireless reception of physiological status data. Each monitoring unit (24) is provided to transmit physiological status data to the access points at selected points of time, together with time related data indicating the expected point of time of the next data transmission. The invention further relates to a respective method for monitoring the physiological status of a patient.
Claims15
A patient monitoring system, comprising:
- at least one monitoring unit for monitoring the physiological status of a patient;
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- a host system comprising a network of access points for wireless reception of physiological status data from the at least one monitoring unit,
- wherein the at least one monitoring unit is provided to transmit data related to the physiological status to at least one of the access points at selected points of time together with time related data containing information about an expected point of time of next data transmission of this monitoring unit,
- wherein the host system is provided to output an alarm signal delayed for a delay time after the expiration of an expected point of time of a data transmission without a reception of further physiological status data from the respective monitoring unit,
- wherein the delay time is a delay time depending on at least one measurement interval of at least one physiological parameter of the patient;
- or a delay time depending on the present physiological status of the patient.
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A method for monitoring the physiological status of a patient, comprising:
- measuring physiological status data of a patient by means of a monitoring unit, and
- transmitting the measured physiological status data to an access point together with time related data containing information about an expected point of time of next data transmission of this monitoring unit,
- wherein the method further comprises outputting an alarm signal delayed for a delay time after the expiration of an expected point of time of a data transmission without a reception of further physiological status data from the respective monitoring unit wherein the delay time is a delay time depending on at least one measurement interval of at least one physiological parameter of the patient or a delay time depending on the present physiological status of the patient.
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