System for the remote monitoring of patients

A method for monitoring a patient subjected to dialysis at home comprising:

• comparing a difference between a latest weight of the patient and an ideal body weight for the patient with a weight threshold and updating a weight trend in a server;
• comparing a difference between a supine blood pressure of the patient and an upright blood pressure of the patient with a lying-standing blood pressure difference threshold and updating a lying-standing blood pressure trend in the server;
• comparing a mean of the supine systolic pressure and a supine diastolic pressure with a supine pressure-lying-variation threshold calculated as the mean value over time of the mean of the supine systolic pressure and the supine diastolic pressure for the patient and updating a lying blood pressure trend in the server;
• comparing the mean of the upright systolic and an upright diastolic pressure with a pressure-standing-variation threshold calculated as the mean value over time of the mean of the upright systolic pressure and the mean of the upright diastolic pressure for the patient and updating an upright blood pressure trend in the server;
• determining a values of bags parameter based on volumes observed in a plurality of bags and updating a values of drainage volume of bags trend in the server;
• transmitting an alert message from said server to an interface means at a doctor's office and/or to an interface means at a patient's home if a threshold value is exceeded;
• and
• wherein threshold values are determined as a function of a stored history and are updated trend data received by the server.

A method for monitoring a patient subjected to dialysis at home comprising:

• calculating a probability of observing a given value vi,t for a physiological parameter in a server from the following equation:
• P ( V i , t | S ) = ∑ o ∈ O ⁡ ( i ) ⁢ f s , o ⁡ ( V i , t ) ⁢ p i ⁡ ( o | s )
• where
• Vi,t is a value observed for a physiological parameter at the time t,
• O(i) is a set of possible observations for the physiological parameter i, said set (O(i) comprising observations, including satisfactory, below a norm value, above a norm value;
• f is a function of the type which gives a weighting of between 0 and 1, which is dependant on the value of the physiological parameter i for a given state s, and which parameters are defined by a doctor or depend on history,
• pi(o|s) is the probability of observing o for the parameter i assuming that the state of the patient is s;
• and
• transmitting an alert message from said server to an interface means at a doctor's surgery and/or to an interface means at a patient's home if the norm value is likely to be exceeded;
• wherein norm values are determined as a function of a stored history and are updated trend data received by the server.