Neural networks as a tool to predict syncope risk in the Emergency Department.

Journal: Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology
PMID: 28017935

Abstract

AIMS: There is no universally accepted tool for the risk stratification of syncope patients in the Emergency Department. The aim of this study was to investigate the short-term predictive accuracy of an artificial neural network (ANN) in stratifying the risk in this patient group.

Authors

  • Giorgio Costantino
    Emergency Department, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Università Degli Studi Di Milano, 20100 Milan, Italy.
  • Greta Falavigna
    CNR-IRCrES, Research Institute on Sustainable Economic Growth, Moncalieri, Italy.
  • Monica Solbiati
    Emergency Department, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Università Degli Studi Di Milano, 20100 Milan, Italy.
  • Ivo Casagranda
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Ospedale di Alessandria, Alessandria, Italy.
  • Benjamin C Sun
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Center for Policy Research-Emergency Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA.
  • Shamai A Grossman
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
  • James V Quinn
    Division of Emergency Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
  • Matthew J Reed
    Emergency Medicine Research Group Edinburgh, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
  • Andrea Ungar
    Syncope Unit, Geriatric Medicine and Cardiology, Careggi University Hospital, Firenze, Italy.
  • Nicola Montano
    Department of Neuroscience, Neurosurgery Section, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy.
  • Raffaello Furlan
    Internal Medicine, Syncope Unit, IRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital, 20089 Milan, Italy.
  • Roberto Ippoliti
    Ospedale di Alessandria, Alessandria, Italy.

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