METHOD OF MEDICAL MONITORING

The present invention relates to a method of medical monitoring, a medical monitoring system and a computer program to control a medical monitoring system. In order to provide an improved monitoring technique that allows a more effective recognition of monitored data a method of medical monitoring is suggested, the method using data collected by a number of sensors (2), the sensors (2) are positioned on a patient in a way that the sensors (2) form a predefined arrangement and the collected data depend on the position of the sensor (2) on the patient. According to the invention the method comprises the step of displaying data using a number of multiaxis diagrams (6, 7) in which the position of the axes (8, 10) is related to the position of the sensors (2) in the predefined arrangement, and on each axis (8, 10) data from its related sensor (2) is displayed. Whereas known monitoring techniques merely display medical data on axes which are defined in a more or less arbitrary way, the present invention suggests to use a multiaxis diagram (6, 7) in a way, that each axis (8, 10) represents one particular dimension of data. In other words not only the pure values, but additional spatial information (12, 13, 18) are displayed and provided to a user, e. g. to a physician. With this addition-al information a two- or even three-dimensional representation of data and therefore a localization of data is provided. The monitoring technique according to the invention thus allows a more effective recognition of monitored data. Physicians are enabled to carry out a fast pattern recognition in order to recognize and to evaluate the situation of the patient in a quicker and more effective way.