Patent ID: 6870484

Claim:
A radio frequency patient monitoring system comprising: a central station for analyzing and displaying physiological patient data; a system receiver connected to the central station; a plurality of antennas connected to the system receiver, each antenna operable to transmit a unique location code in a transmission range, wherein the transmission range of each antenna does not overlap; and a portable patient monitor including a transceiver, a microphone, and a speaker, the patent monitor operable to only receive the location code of the antenna associated with the transmission range in which the patient monitor is located, the patient monitor operable to acquire physiological patient data and to transmit the physiological patient data and the location code to the central station via the antenna associated with the transmission range in which the patient monitor is located, the patient monitor operable to receive voice data from and transmit voice data to the central station via the antenna associated with the transmission range in which the patient monitor is located, the central station being operable to process and convert the location code to a displayable form.