Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.V.

Kai Hassing

Harald Greiner

Bernd Wilm

Uli Tessel

Winfried Peter Kaiser

A plurality of patient monitors () which each monitor medical conditions of a patient and display text and graphs depicting such medical conditions are connected by a network () with a central station (). Each monitor includes a paging unit () which communicates via the network with a paging server (). In response to a monitor determining a critical event in its patient's monitored medical condition, a page event is sent via the network to the paging server (). The paging server sends page messages to selective ones of the patient monitors, e.g., the monitors which are in closest proximity to a medical care professional associated with the patient, and the paging method is displayed by a display module () of the designated patient monitors.

Clinical monitoring network

The present invention suggests the use of independent, wireless, smart and therefore self-contained sensors () in a patient monitoring system (). The sensors () provide their own communication system for transmitting acquired signals to a patient monitor () etc. Furthermore a patient identifier () is associated to the communication. This approach introduces a patient-related concept, where all communication is personalized and assigned to the patient ().

Sensor for acquiring physiological signals of a patient

Technique for deriving a graphical representation of domain-specific display-objects on an external display () within a patient-monitoring system (), in which only a small amount of data has to be transmitted to the external display device () and at the same time the user of the external display () gets the same 'look and feel' as he is used to from the built-in display () of a patient monitor ().

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Sindelfingen, Germany

Kai Hassing