| 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. |