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Artificial Intelligence Applications in the Intensive Care Unit

Hanson WC and Marshall BE. Artificial Intelligence Applications in the Intensive Care Unit. Crit Care Med 2001; 29(2): 427-435. Click here to view the paper OBJECTIVE: To review the history and current applications of artificial intelligence in the intensive care unit. DATA SOURCES: The MEDLINE data

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State of the Art Review: The Data Revolution in Critical Care

Ghassemi M, Celi LA, and Stone DJ. State of the Art Review: The Data Revolution in Critical Care. Critical Care 2015; 19:118-127. Click here to view the paper Abstract This article is one of ten reviews selected from the Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2015 and co-published a

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The ethical imperative of learning from the data

Photo Credit: Greater Louisville Medical Society By Randall C. Wetzel The ethics of Science regards the search for the truth as one of the highest duties of man. -Edwin Grant Conklin [1] Decades into the digital revolution with our digital smartphones and our digital music and our increasingly digit

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STARTUP PROFILE: EMBODIED LABS – VR TRAINING

The solution in brief Embodied Labs offer customers VR training that lets health care providers step into the perspective of the patient or the perspective of the care team. They also came third in the AIMed 2017 Shark Tank Competition. Their programmes combine a film with different kinds of interac

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Clinical decision support and Variation in Clinical Care

Photo Credit: Anne-Lise Heinrichs In this digital age, the widespread use of electronic medical records (EMRs) has been transformative to the practice of medicine, and the development and use of clinical decision support tools (CDS) are growing in popularity with great potential to improve both qual

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Predicting Sepsis in Hospitalized Patients with machine learning

Case: A 68 year old woman presents to the emergency department, brought in by paramedics, complaining of generalized weakness. She lives alone at her home and has not been able to get up to prepare her meals for the last 24 hours. She is alert and oriented, but appears weak. Her vital signs are norm

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