Tissue profile wellness monitor

A physiological monitoring method comprising:

• receiving, from a sensor comprising a light source that emits light into a tissue site of a patient and a detector that detects a plurality of wavelengths of the emitted light after attenuation by the tissue site, a signal indicative of the detected light at each of the plurality of wavelengths;
• determining a tissue profile curve across each of the plurality of wavelengths based at least in part on the signal indicative of the detected light at each of the plurality of wavelengths;
• comparing the tissue profile curve to a predefined boundary curve to determine patient wellness, wherein the predefined boundary curve is defined across each of the plurality of wavelengths;
• and
• outputting an indication in response to determining the tissue profile curve exceeds the predefined boundary curve.

A physiological monitoring method comprising:

• receiving, from a sensor comprising a light source that emits light into a tissue site of a patient and a detector that detects a plurality of wavelengths of the emitted light after attenuation by the tissue site, a signal indicative of the detected light at each of the plurality of wavelengths;
• determining a plurality of tissue profile curves based at least in part on signals received from the sensor indicative of detected light at each of a plurality of wavelengths, wherein each of the tissue profile curves is across each of the plurality of wavelengths;
• evaluating a trend in movement of the tissue profile curves over time to determine patient wellness;
• and
• outputting an indication of the determined patient wellness.