Communications: electrical – Condition responsive indicating system – Specific condition
Patent
1994-06-06
1996-07-09
Mullen, Thomas
Communications: electrical
Condition responsive indicating system
Specific condition
12820222, 128903, 3403111, 3404071, 340502, 340525, 455 531, 455351, G08B 2300
Patent
active
055348513
ABSTRACT:
An alarm system for notifying necessary medical and hospital personnel that a patient or the patient's life support equipment require immediate response without providing the alarm signal to the monitored patient or surrounding patients, to prevent patient trauma which may otherwise result from the sound of the alarm. The system includes an alarm signal generator that provides a coded pulse indication of the patient and equipment type. The coded signal is sent to a master control unit preferably located at a nurses' station. The master control unit then transmits the coded alarm signal simultaneously to the appropriate group of pagers having vibrational annunciators and a visual display that describes the patient location and equipment type. The patients monitor and equipment at bedside and the pagers have no audio alarm signals. The alarm signal can only be terminated manually by an interrupt switch at the bedside.
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Mullen Thomas
Mybeck Richard R.
Scull Peter B.
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