| 摘要 |
A system and a method allowing a technician to monitor the condition of a plurality of patients and communicate their condition to an attending clinician. A centralized receiving station receives signals from each of the patients being monitored. A graphical user interface 10 simultaneously displays an indication of patient condition for each of a plurality of patients. The technician monitors the physiological condition of the patients, reviewing any alarm signals that are sent for verification before notifying the clinician via a communications transmission. When the clinician responds to the transmission with his own response transmission, the response is indicated on the monitoring display 10. If the clinician does not send a response transmission the technician will move to an escalated communications transmission until the clinician sends a response transmission back to the central monitoring station. The single informative display simplifies the cognitive load on the technician; does not rely on the technician's memory; allows for greater continuity of health care support between changes of technician: and allows for greater prioritising of patient alarms ensuring that a low priority but currently unattended alarm will not take priority over a more critical alarm. |
