Critical Care

Prediction using patient comparison vs. modeling: a case study for mortality prediction.

Information in Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) can be used to generate accurate predictions for the occurrence of a variety of health states, which can contribute to more pro-active interventions. The very nature of EMRs does make the application of off-the-shelf machine learning techniques difficult. In this paper, we study two approaches to making predictions that have hardly been compared in ...

Evaluation of periodic breathing in respiratory flow signal of elderly patients using SVM and linear discriminant analysis.

Aging population is a major concern that is reflected in the increase of chronic diseases. Heart Failure (HF) is one of the most common chronic diseases of elderly people that is punctuated with acute episodes, which result in hospitalization. The periodic modulation of the amplitude of the breathing pattern is proved to be one of the multiple symptoms of an acute episode, and thus, the features e...

Laparoscopic Robot-Assisted Diaphragm Plication.

Minimally invasive approaches to diaphragm plication for eventration include thoracoscopic and laparoscopic techniques. The elevated hemidiaphragm and...

[Effect of prone position ventilation on respiratory mechanics and prognosis in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome concurrent with interstitial lung disease].

OBJECTIVE: To explore the effect of prone position ventilation (PPV) on respiratory mechanics and prognosis in patients with acute respiratory distres...

[Effect of location and type of exhalation valve on carbon dioxide rebreathing during noninvasive positive pressure ventilation: a experimental study].

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the influence of exhalation valve location as well as its type on carbon dioxide (CO2) rebreathing during noninvasive positi...

[Reproduction of a model of "two-hit" sepsis model with complication of pneumonia in rat].

OBJECTIVE: To reproduce a clinically relevant "two-hit" model of sepsis complicated by pneumonia and to explore the correlation between "two-hit" and ...

[Role and mechanism of the NOD-like receptor 3 inflammasome in ventilator-induced lung injury in rats].

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the role and its mechanism of the NOD-like receptor 3 (NLRP3) inflammasome in alveolar macrophages in ventilator-induced lun...

[The influence of the sedation based on remifentanil analgesia on the occurrence of delirium in critically ill patients].

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the influence of the midazolam sedation based on remifentanil analgesia on the occurrence of delirium in critically ill pati...

[The value of passive leg raising test in predicting fluid responsiveness in patients with sepsis-induced cardiac dysfunction].

OBJECTIVE: To assess the value of passive leg raising (PLR) test in predicting fluid responsiveness in patients with sepsis-induced cardiac dysfunctio...

Comparison between target margins derived from 4DCT scans and real-time tumor motion tracking: insights from lung tumor patients treated with robotic radiosurgery.

PURPOSE: A unique capability of the CyberKnife system is dynamic target tracking. However, not all patients are eligible for this approach. Rather, th...

Patient-specific early classification of multivariate observations.

Early classification of time series has been receiving a lot of attention recently. In this paper we present a model, which we call the Early Classifi...

Etiology and pathology of epidemic outbreaks of avian influenza H5N1 infection in Egyptian chicken farms.

Epidemic outbreaks of avian influenza (AI) virus H5N1 have been frequently reported in Egypt during the last nine years. Here we investigate the invol...

Sodium thiosulfate for the treatment of warfarin-induced calciphylaxis in a nondialysis patient.

Calciphylaxis or uremic arteriolopathy is a complex process typically seen in patients with end-stage renal disease, but has also been reported in pat...

Prompting physicians to address a daily checklist for antibiotics: do we need a co-pilot in the ICU?

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Failed opportunities to reduce morbidity and mortality occur when evidence-based therapies are not fully implemented in clinical pr...