Virtual arrhythmia system

An arrhythmia monitoring system comprising:

• at least one beside station that provides signals representing physiological data including waveforms when suitably coupled to a patient,
• a central station,
• means for providing communication between each bedside station and said central station,
• means coupled to a bedside station for analyzing physiological data provided thereby,
• means at each bedside station for setting conditions for the assertion of an alarm for that bedside station,
• means at said central station for setting conditions for the assertion of an alarm at any bedside station,
• alarm means coupled to each bedside station for providing an alarm signal at the bedside station and at said central station when the alarm conditions for said bedside station are met,
• storage means responsive to an alarm signal for saving physiological waveform data causing said alarm,
• means coupled to said storage means for displaying the physiological data causing a current alarm at the bedside station from whence the physiological data came,
• means coupled to said storage means for displaying the physiological data causing a current alarm at said central station,
• means at each bedside station and at said central station for eliminating at either station displayed physiological data causing the current alarm from said storage means, and
• means for recording physiological data from current alarms that has not been eliminated from said storage means.