POTTER-ICU: An artificial intelligence smartphone-accessible tool to predict the need for intensive care after emergency surgery.

Journal: Surgery
Published Date: Apr 28, 2022

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Delays in admitting high-risk emergency surgery patients to the intensive care unit result in worse outcomes and increased health care costs. We aimed to use interpretable artificial intelligence technology to create a preoperative predictor for postoperative intensive care unit need in emergency surgery patients.

Authors

  • Anthony Gebran
    - University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Department of Surgery - Pittsburgh - PA - Estados Unidos.
  • Annita Vapsi
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
  • Lydia R Maurer
    Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA.
  • Mohamad El Moheb
    Division of Trauma, Emergency Surgery, and Surgical Critical Care, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Leon Naar
    Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
  • Sumiran S Thakur
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
  • Robert Sinyard
    Division of Trauma, Emergency Surgery, and Surgical Critical Care, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA.
  • Dania Daye
    Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Charlestown, MA, USA. Electronic address: ddaye@mgh.harvard.edu.
  • George C Velmahos
    Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
  • Dimitris Bertsimas
    Dimitris Bertsimas, Jack Dunn, Colin Pawlowski, John Silberholz, Alexander Weinstein, and Ying Daisy Zhuo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; Eddy Chen, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center; Harvard Medical School; Aymen A. Elfiky, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Brigham and Women's Hospital; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
  • Haytham M A Kaafarani
    Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.

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