Claims
- 9. A system to monitor physiological data, comprising:
sensors for blood pressure, pulse rate, blood oxygen concentration and electrocardiographic information; a patient monitor coupled to the sensors for continually collecting and transmitting the physiological data corresponding to a patient, the patient monitor including a display; a central monitoring system for storage, analysis, and display of continuous physiological data, the central monitoring system including a transmitter for transmitting at least one monitoring parameter to said patient monitor; a digital spread-spectrum radio-frequency transmitter for transmitting physiological data from said monitor to said central monitoring system.
- 15. A method for providing simultaneous monitoring of at least one physiological parameter of a patient at a plurality of locations, the method comprising the following steps:
coupling at least one patient monitor including a display and a transceiver to the patient; establishing a bi-directional RF communications link using spread spectrum digital transmissions in the ISM band between the patient monitor and a central monitoring system; selecting the physiological parameters to monitor and at least one waveform characteristic of the central monitoring system; transmitting the selected physiological parameter and the selected waveform characteristic to the patient monitor; collecting the physiological parameter; displaying a continuous waveform representation of the physiological parameters at the patient monitor; displaying a continuous waveform representation of the physiological parameter at the central monitoring system.
- 16. The method as defined in claim 15, further comprising the step of selecting a sampling rate at the central monitoring system.
- 17. The method as defined in claim 15, further comprising the step of detecting a patient location.
- 18. The method as defined in claim 15, further comprising the step of coupling a second patient monitor to a second patient.
- 19. The system as defined in claim 9, wherein the monitoring parameter is a waveform specification.
- 20. The system as defined in claim 9, wherein the monitoring parameter is a sampling rate.
- 21. The system as defined in claim 9, further comprising a second central monitoring system.
- 22. The system as defined in claim 9, wherein a dynamic waveform is displayed on the display of the patient monitor.
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
[0001] This application is a division of application Ser. No. 09/226,055, filed on Jan. 5, 1999, which is continuation of application No. 08/747,859, filed on Nov. 13, 1996, U.S. Pat. No. 5,855,550.
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