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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 08, 2003
Filed:
Feb. 26, 2001
Klemens Beetz, Erlangen, DE;
Michael Kraus, Forchheim, DE;
Bernhard Lang, Feucht, DE;
Martin Lang, Grossenseebach, DE;
Axel Nagelschmidt, Erlangen, DE;
Johannes Neudecker, Erlangen, DE;
Jens Potschadtke, Erlangen, DE;
Abstract
A patient monitoring system ( ) is provided with at least one body sensor ( ) for measuring a physiological parameter, as well as with a body signal processing unit ( ) connected downstream from the former and/or a therapy device ( ) designed to act on the patient (P), and a mobile radiotelephone end unit ( ) operable in a cellular mobile radiotelephone network ( B) for transmitting data from the body signal processing unit or the therapy device to a central monitoring station ( C) and/or from the central monitoring station to the therapy device. A base station coordinate memory unit ( ) and a locator unit ( through ) connected to the former serves for the rough determination of the location of the patient based on location information obtained from the current base station connection of the mobile radiotelephone end unit in the mobile radiotelephone network. For the fine position determination, a direction-finding transmitter ( ) that sends out a direction-finding signal is provided in the mobile radiotelephone end unit ( ). A separate direction-finding device ( ) serves for the fine tracking of the direction-finding signal.