Wireless telecommunications system adaptable for patient monitoring

A system for communicating information relating to physical attributes of patients, comprising:

• multiple patient monitoring devices each associated with a particular patient, each of the multiple patient monitoring devices having a sensor for detecting at least one physical attribute from the patient associated therewith and at least one transmitter for transmitting patient data corresponding to the physical attribute detected for the particular patient out to a transmission area of said each patient monitoring device;
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• a plurality of mobile communicators adapted to be positioned at different locations, each of said communicators having a transceiver adapted to receive patient data transmitted from patient monitoring devices when located within respective transmission areas of the patient monitoring devices, and to communicate with other communicators within its transceiving area;
• wherein each of said communicators, when located within the transmission area of any one of said patient monitoring devices, receives the patient data from said any one patient monitoring device and broadcasts the received patient data out to its communicator transceiving area;
• wherein said each communicator includes a memory for storing patient data of the patients, said each communicator storing the received patient data in its memory, and wherein if there is patient data of a particular patient previously stored in the memory and if the received patient data of the particular patient is more recent than the stored patient data of the particular patient, the previously stored patient data is updated with the received patient data so that the patient data for the particular patient stored in the memory of said each communicator is the most recent patient data for the particular patient.