Systems and methods for monitoring a patient

A system for a user to monitoring a patient, comprising:

• a) one or more pressure-sensing devices, wherein each of the pressure-sensing devices comprises a pressure-sensitive region configured to:
• be overlaid on one of one or more pressure ulcer-prone body parts of a body of the patient;
• and
• sense force applied to the body and generates a signal representative of a magnitude of the force,
• and wherein each of the pressure-sensing devices is configured to generate data comprising two pressure measurements from different times based on the sensed force;
• b) a controller comprising a communication unit;
• a computational unit comprising:
• a processor;
• and
• a non-transient computer-readable memory comprising instructions that, when executed by the processor, causes the computational unit to:
• i) obtain the data transmitted by the one or more pressure-sensing devices;
• ii) processing the two pressure measurements from different times of the data to generate a processed pressure datum, wherein the processing comprises calculating a time-differential of the data:
• dP(t)/dt, where P(t) is a function comprising a temporal sequence of the pressure measurements value, pt;
• and
• iii) determine whether the processed pressure datum meets a threshold value;
• and
• c) a user-interface unit comprising an output unit configured to display an output comprising:
• the data, or the processed pressure datum;
• and/or
• an indication of whether the threshold value is met by the data.