Monitoring the hydration and/or nutrition status of a patient by bioimpedance.A bioimpedance method and device that makes use of a refined model by whichthe conductivity contributions from intracellular tissues can be taken betterinto account to enable an improved assessment of the body composition of apatient with increased accuracy. The intracellular volume (ICV) of a patientis determined by determining an intracellular electrical resistance Rmix ofthe patient and deriving the intracellular volume ICV using Rmix by takinginto account that a cell of a kind of tissue contributes differently to theelectrical resistance Rmix of the intracellular volume ICV compared with acell of a second kind of tissue. The application also relates to a device forcarrying out the method according to the invention and to a computer programproduct to be used on such a device.
