ANXIETY MONITORING
First Claim
1. A patient monitoring system comprisinga probe module to acquire data of a patient to be monitored, wherein the probe module includes a salivary cortisol assay to measure a salivary cortisol level or blood cortisol level,an evaluation module to determine a patient'"'"'s state of anxiety on the basis of the acquired data, the evaluation module configured to determine the patient'"'"'s state on the basis of the salivary cortisol level or blood cortisol level, andan indicator module to feedback the determined state of anxiety to attending staff.
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Abstract
A patient monitoring system comprises a probe module (10) to acquire data of a patient to be monitored. An evaluation module (20) to determines a patient'"'"'s state of anxiety on the basis of the acquired data. An indicator module (30) to feedback the determined state of anxiety to attending staff. Thus, the staff is enabled on the basis of the feedback from the patient monitoring system to re-assure patients where that is needed and beneficiary.
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13 Claims
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1. A patient monitoring system comprising
a probe module to acquire data of a patient to be monitored, wherein the probe module includes a salivary cortisol assay to measure a salivary cortisol level or blood cortisol level, an evaluation module to determine a patient'"'"'s state of anxiety on the basis of the acquired data, the evaluation module configured to determine the patient'"'"'s state on the basis of the salivary cortisol level or blood cortisol level, and an indicator module to feedback the determined state of anxiety to attending staff.
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12. A patient monitoring method including
acquisition of data of a patient to be monitored including a cortisol assay which measures the cortisol in the patient'"'"'s saliva or blood determination of an indication of a patient'"'"'s state of anxiety on the basis of the acquired data, and an indicator module to feedback the determined indication of the state of anxiety to attending staff.
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13. A computer programme including instructions to
acquire data of a patient to be monitored, including the cortisol in the patient'"'"'s saliva or blood, determine a patient'"'"'s state of anxiety and feedback the determined state of anxiety to attending staff.
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