Clinical monitoring network

摘要

A plurality of patient monitors (5, 6) which each monitor medical conditions of a patient and display text and graphs depicting such medical conditions are connected by a network (7) with a central station (4). Each monitor includes a paging unit (8) which communicates via the network with a paging server (3). 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 (3). 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 (10) of the designated patient monitors.

主权项

1. A clinical monitoring network comprising:
a network backbone; a central station connected with the network backbone; a plurality of medical devices including a plurality of patient monitors, each patient monitor: monitors physiological conditions of a corresponding patient, displays representations of the physiological conditions of the corresponding patient on a physiological display, communicates the monitored physiological conditions and critical event conditions with the central station via the network backbone, includes a paging display module; a paging server connected with the network backbone to receive at least the communicated critical event conditions concerning a first patient whose physiological conditions are monitored by a first of the patient monitors and to communicate paging messages to selected patient monitors other than or in addition to the first patient monitor; wherein the display modules of the patient monitors receive the paging messages communicating critical event conditions concerning other patients and display the paging messages on the physiological display in addition to the displayed representations of the monitored physiological conditions of the corresponding monitored patient such that at least some of the patient monitors display the monitored physiological condition representations of one patient and paging messages communicating the critical event conditions concerning one or more other patients; wherein the paging display module displays the paging information of the one or more other patients in a pop-up window on the physiological display.