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Jacobsson M, Seoane F, Abtahi F. The role of compression in large scale data transfer and storage of typical biomedical signals at hospitals. Health Informatics J 2023; 29:14604582231213846. [PMID: 38063181 DOI: 10.1177/14604582231213846] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2023]
Abstract
In modern hospitals, monitoring patients' vital signs and other biomedical signals is standard practice. With the advent of data-driven healthcare, Internet of medical things, wearable technologies, and machine learning, we expect this to accelerate and to be used in new and promising ways, including early warning systems and precision diagnostics. Hence, we see an ever-increasing need for retrieving, storing, and managing the large amount of biomedical signal data generated. The popularity of standards, such as HL7 FHIR for interoperability and data transfer, have also resulted in their use as a data storage model, which is inefficient. This article raises concern about the inefficiency of using FHIR for storage of biomedical signals and instead highlights the possibility of a sustainable storage based on data compression. Most reported efforts have focused on ECG signals; however, many other typical biomedical signals are understudied. In this article, we are considering arterial blood pressure, photoplethysmography, and respiration. We focus on simple lossless compression with low implementation complexity, low compression delay, and good compression ratios suitable for wide adoption. Our results show that it is easy to obtain a compression ratio of 2.7:1 for arterial blood pressure, 2.9:1 for photoplethysmography, and 4.1:1 for respiration.
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- Martin Jacobsson
- Department of Biomedical Engineering and Health Systems, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Huddinge, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Clinical Physiology, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Sweden; Department of Textile Technology, University of Borås, Sweden; Department of Medical Technology - Management and Development, Karolinska University Hospital, Sweden
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering and Health Systems, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Huddinge, Sweden; Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden; Department of Clinical Physiology, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Sweden
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Muñoz-Bonet JI, Posadas-Blázquez V, González-Galindo L, Sánchez-Zahonero J, Vázquez-Martínez JL, Castillo A, Brines J. Exploring the clinical relevance of vital signs statistical calculations from a new-generation clinical information system. Sci Rep 2023; 13:15068. [PMID: 37699960 PMCID: PMC10497571 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-40769-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2023] [Accepted: 08/16/2023] [Indexed: 09/14/2023] Open
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New information on the intensive care applications of new generation 'high-density data clinical information systems' (HDDCIS) is increasingly being published in the academic literature. HDDCIS avoid data loss from bedside equipment and some provide vital signs statistical calculations to promote quick and easy evaluation of patient information. Our objective was to study whether manual records of continuously monitored vital signs in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit could be replaced by these statistical calculations. Here we conducted a prospective observational clinical study in paediatric patients with severe diabetic ketoacidosis, using a Medlinecare® HDDCIS, which collects information from bedside equipment (1 data point per parameter, every 3-5 s) and automatically provides hourly statistical calculations of the central trend and sample dispersion. These calculations were compared with manual hourly nursing records for patient heart and respiratory rates and oxygen saturation. The central tendency calculations showed identical or remarkably similar values and strong correlations with manual nursing records. The sample dispersion calculations differed from the manual references and showed weaker correlations. We concluded that vital signs calculations of central tendency can replace manual records, thereby reducing the bureaucratic burden of staff. The significant sample dispersion calculations variability revealed that automatic random measurements must be supervised by healthcare personnel, making them inefficient.
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- Juan Ignacio Muñoz-Bonet
- Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Clínico Universitario, Av. Blasco Ibáñez 17, 46010, Valencia, Spain.
- Department of Paediatrics, Obstetrics, and Gynaecology, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain.
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- Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Clínico Universitario, Av. Blasco Ibáñez 17, 46010, Valencia, Spain
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- Department of Paediatrics, Obstetrics, and Gynaecology, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
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- Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Clínico Universitario, Av. Blasco Ibáñez 17, 46010, Valencia, Spain
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- Paediatric Technological Innovation Department, Foundation for Biomedical Research of Hospital Niño Jesús, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Paediatrics, Obstetrics, and Gynaecology, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
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Ravid Tannenbaum N, Gottesman O, Assadi A, Mazwi M, Shalit U, Eytan D. iCVS-Inferring Cardio-Vascular hidden States from physiological signals available at the bedside. PLoS Comput Biol 2023; 19:e1010835. [PMID: 37669284 PMCID: PMC10503777 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010835] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/26/2022] [Revised: 09/15/2023] [Accepted: 07/20/2023] [Indexed: 09/07/2023] Open
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Intensive care medicine is complex and resource-demanding. A critical and common challenge lies in inferring the underlying physiological state of a patient from partially observed data. Specifically for the cardiovascular system, clinicians use observables such as heart rate, arterial and venous blood pressures, as well as findings from the physical examination and ancillary tests to formulate a mental model and estimate hidden variables such as cardiac output, vascular resistance, filling pressures and volumes, and autonomic tone. Then, they use this mental model to derive the causes for instability and choose appropriate interventions. Not only this is a very hard problem due to the nature of the signals, but it also requires expertise and a clinician's ongoing presence at the bedside. Clinical decision support tools based on mechanistic dynamical models offer an appealing solution due to their inherent explainability, corollaries to the clinical mental process, and predictive power. With a translational motivation in mind, we developed iCVS: a simple, with high explanatory power, dynamical mechanistic model to infer hidden cardiovascular states. Full model estimation requires no prior assumptions on physiological parameters except age and weight, and the only inputs are arterial and venous pressure waveforms. iCVS also considers autonomic and non-autonomic modulations. To gain more information without increasing model complexity, both slow and fast timescales of the blood pressure traces are exploited, while the main inference and dynamic evolution are at the longer, clinically relevant, timescale of minutes. iCVS is designed to allow bedside deployment at pediatric and adult intensive care units and for retrospective investigation of cardiovascular mechanisms underlying instability. In this paper, we describe iCVS and inference system in detail, and using a dataset of critically-ill children, we provide initial indications to its ability to identify bleeding, distributive states, and cardiac dysfunction, in isolation and in combination.
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- Neta Ravid Tannenbaum
- Faculty of Data and Decision Science, Technion, Haifa Israel
- Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa Israel
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- Department of Computer Science, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
- Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
- Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Faculty of Data and Decision Science, Technion, Haifa Israel
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- Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa Israel
- Department of Critical Care Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
- Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Rambam Medical Center, Haifa Israel
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Goodwin AJ, Dixon W, Mazwi M, Hahn CD, Meir T, Goodfellow SD, Kazazian V, Greer RW, McEwan A, Laussen PC, Eytan D. The truth Hertz-synchronization of electroencephalogram signals with physiological waveforms recorded in an intensive care unit. Physiol Meas 2023; 44:085002. [PMID: 37406636 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6579/ace49e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2023] [Accepted: 07/05/2023] [Indexed: 07/07/2023]
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Objective.The ability to synchronize continuous electroencephalogram (cEEG) signals with physiological waveforms such as electrocardiogram (ECG), invasive pressures, photoplethysmography and other signals can provide meaningful insights regarding coupling between brain activity and other physiological subsystems. Aligning these datasets is a particularly challenging problem because device clocks handle time differently and synchronization protocols may be undocumented or proprietary.Approach.We used an ensemble-based model to detect the timestamps of heartbeat artefacts from ECG waveforms recorded from inpatient bedside monitors and from cEEG signals acquired using a different device. Vectors of inter-beat intervals were matched between both datasets and robust linear regression was applied to measure the relative time offset between the two datasets as a function of time.Main Results.The timing error between the two unsynchronized datasets ranged between -84 s and +33 s (mean 0.77 s, median 4.31 s, IQR25-4.79 s, IQR75 11.38s). Application of our method improved the relative alignment to within ± 5ms for more than 61% of the dataset. The mean clock drift between the two datasets was 418.3 parts per million (ppm) (median 414.6 ppm, IQR25 411.0 ppm, IQR75 425.6 ppm). A signal quality index was generated that described the quality of alignment for each cEEG study as a function of time.Significance.We developed and tested a method to retrospectively time-align two clinical waveform datasets acquired from different devices using a common signal. The method was applied to 33,911h of signals collected in a paediatric critical care unit over six years, demonstrating that the method can be applied to long-term recordings collected under clinical conditions. The method can account for unknown clock drift rates and the presence of discontinuities caused by clock resynchronization events.
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- Andrew J Goodwin
- School of Biomedical Engineering, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Department of Critical Care Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Division of Cardiology, Department of Paediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Division of Neurology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Civil and Mineral Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Paediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Department of Anesthesia, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America
- Department of Cardiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America
- Department of Anaesthesia, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA, United States of America
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel
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Goodwin AJ, Eytan D, Dixon W, Goodfellow SD, Doherty Z, Greer RW, McEwan A, Tracy M, Laussen PC, Assadi A, Mazwi M. Timing errors and temporal uncertainty in clinical databases-A narrative review. Front Digit Health 2022; 4:932599. [PMID: 36060541 PMCID: PMC9433547 DOI: 10.3389/fdgth.2022.932599] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2022] [Accepted: 07/11/2022] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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A firm concept of time is essential for establishing causality in a clinical setting. Review of critical incidents and generation of study hypotheses require a robust understanding of the sequence of events but conducting such work can be problematic when timestamps are recorded by independent and unsynchronized clocks. Most clinical models implicitly assume that timestamps have been measured accurately and precisely, but this custom will need to be re-evaluated if our algorithms and models are to make meaningful use of higher frequency physiological data sources. In this narrative review we explore factors that can result in timestamps being erroneously recorded in a clinical setting, with particular focus on systems that may be present in a critical care unit. We discuss how clocks, medical devices, data storage systems, algorithmic effects, human factors, and other external systems may affect the accuracy and precision of recorded timestamps. The concept of temporal uncertainty is introduced, and a holistic approach to timing accuracy, precision, and uncertainty is proposed. This quantitative approach to modeling temporal uncertainty provides a basis to achieve enhanced model generalizability and improved analytical outcomes.
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- Andrew J. Goodwin
- Department of Critical Care Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
- School of Biomedical Engineering, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Department of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Department of Civil and Mineral Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Research Fellow, School of Rural Health, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Anesthesia, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Department of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Kim S, Yun D, Kwon S, Lee SR, Kim K, Kim YC, Kim DK, Oh KH, Joo KW, Lee HC, Jung CW, Kim YS, Han SS. System of integrating biosignals during hemodialysis: the CONTINUAL (Continuous mOnitoriNg viTal sIgN dUring hemodiALysis registry. Kidney Res Clin Pract 2022; 41:363-371. [PMID: 35698753 PMCID: PMC9184839 DOI: 10.23876/j.krcp.21.157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2021] [Accepted: 10/01/2021] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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Background Appropriate monitoring of intradialytic biosignals is essential to minimize adverse outcomes because intradialytic hypotension and arrhythmia are associated with cardiovascular risk in hemodialysis patients. However, a continuous monitoring system for intradialytic biosignals has not yet been developed. Methods This study investigated a cloud system that hosted a prospective, open-source registry to monitor and collect intradialytic biosignals, which was named the CONTINUAL (Continuous mOnitoriNg viTal sIgN dUring hemodiALysis) registry. This registry was based on real-time multimodal data acquisition, such as blood pressure, heart rate, electrocardiogram, and photoplethysmogram results. Results We analyzed session information from this system for the initial 8 months, including data for some cases with hemodynamic complications such as intradialytic hypotension and arrhythmia. Conclusion This biosignal registry provides valuable data that can be applied to conduct epidemiological surveys on hemodynamic complications during hemodialysis and develop artificial intelligence models that predict biosignal changes which can improve patient outcomes.
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- Seonmi Kim
- Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Transdisciplinary Department of Medicine & Advanced Technology, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
- Correspondence: Seung Seok Han Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, 103 Daehak-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul 03080, Republic of Korea. E-mail:
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Heart rate variability is markedly abnormal following surgical repair of atrial and ventricular septal defects in pediatric patients. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcchd.2022.100333] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Blood Pressure in Critically Ill Children: Exploratory Analyses of Concurrent Invasive and Noninvasive Measurements. Crit Care Explor 2021; 3:e0586. [PMID: 34984339 PMCID: PMC8718171 DOI: 10.1097/cce.0000000000000586] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Supplemental Digital Content is available in the text. OBJECTIVES: Differences and biases between directly measured intra-arterial blood pressure and intermittingly measured noninvasive blood pressure using an oscillometric cuff method have been reported in adults and children. At the bedside, clinicians are required to assign a confidence to a specific blood pressure measurement before acting upon it, and this is challenging when there is discordance between measurement techniques. We hypothesized that big data could define and quantify the relationship between noninvasive blood pressure and intra-arterial blood pressure measurements and how they can be influenced by patient characteristics, thereby aiding bedside decision-making. DESIGN: A retrospective analysis of cuff blood pressure readings with associated concurrent invasive arterial blood pressure measurements (452,195 noninvasive blood pressure measurements). SETTING: Critical care unit at The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto. PATIENTS: Six-thousand two-hundred ninety-seven patients less than or equal to 18 years old, hospitalized in a critical care unit with an indwelling arterial line. INTERVENTIONS: None. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: Two-dimensional distributions of intra-arterial blood pressure and noninvasive blood pressure were generated and the conditional distributions of intra-arterial blood pressure examined as a function of the noninvasive systolic, diastolic, or mean blood pressure. Modification of these distributions according to age and gender were examined using a multilevel mixed-effects model. For any given combination of patient age and noninvasive blood pressure, the expected distribution of intra-arterial blood pressure readings exhibited marked variability at the population level and a bias that significantly depended on the noninvasive blood pressure value and age. We developed an online tool that allows exploration of the relationship between noninvasive blood pressure and intra-arterial blood pressure and the conditional probability distributions according to age. CONCLUSIONS: A large physiologic dataset provides clinically applicable insights into the relationship between noninvasive blood pressure and intra-arterial blood pressure measurements that can help guide decision-making at the patient bedside.
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Hemodynamic Patterns Before Inhospital Cardiac Arrest in Critically Ill Children: An Exploratory Study. Crit Care Explor 2021; 3:e0443. [PMID: 34151279 PMCID: PMC8205221 DOI: 10.1097/cce.0000000000000443] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Supplemental Digital Content is available in the text. OBJECTIVES: To characterize prearrest hemodynamic trajectories of children suffering inhospital cardiac arrest. DESIGN: Exploratory retrospective analysis of arterial blood pressure and electrocardiogram waveforms. SETTING: PICU and cardiac critical care unit in a tertiary-care children’s hospital. PATIENTS: Twenty-seven children with invasive blood pressure monitoring who suffered a total of 31 inhospital cardiac arrest events between June 2017 and June 2019. INTERVENTIONS: None. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: We assessed changes in cardiac output, systemic vascular resistance, stroke volume, and heart rate derived from arterial blood pressure waveforms using three previously described estimation methods. We observed substantial prearrest drops in cardiac output (population median declines of 65–84% depending on estimation method) in all patients in the 10 minutes preceding inhospital cardiac arrest. Most patients’ mean arterial blood pressure also decreased, but this was not universal. We identified three hemodynamic patterns preceding inhospital cardiac arrest: subacute pulseless arrest (n = 18), acute pulseless arrest (n = 7), and bradycardic arrest (n = 6). Acute pulseless arrest events decompensated within seconds, whereas bradycardic and subacute pulseless arrest events deteriorated over several minutes. In the subacute and acute pulseless arrest groups, decreases in cardiac output were primarily due to declines in stroke volume, whereas in the bradycardic group, the decreases were primarily due to declines in heart rate. CONCLUSIONS: Critically ill children exhibit distinct physiologic behaviors prior to inhospital cardiac arrest. All events showed substantial declines in cardiac output shortly before inhospital cardiac arrest. We describe three distinct prearrest patterns with varying rates of decline and varying contributions of heart rate and stroke volume changes to the fall in cardiac output. Our findings suggest that monitoring changes in arterial blood pressure waveform-derived heart rate, pulse pressure, cardiac output, and systemic vascular resistance estimates could improve early detection of inhospital cardiac arrest by up to several minutes. Further study is necessary to verify the patterns witnessed in our cohort as a step toward patient rather than provider-centered definitions of inhospital cardiac arrest.
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Graph Representation Integrating Signals for Emotion Recognition and Analysis. SENSORS 2021; 21:s21124035. [PMID: 34208161 PMCID: PMC8230955 DOI: 10.3390/s21124035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2021] [Revised: 06/07/2021] [Accepted: 06/08/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Data reusability is an important feature of current research, just in every field of science. Modern research in Affective Computing, often rely on datasets containing experiments-originated data such as biosignals, video clips, or images. Moreover, conducting experiments with a vast number of participants to build datasets for Affective Computing research is time-consuming and expensive. Therefore, it is extremely important to provide solutions allowing one to (re)use data from a variety of sources, which usually demands data integration. This paper presents the Graph Representation Integrating Signals for Emotion Recognition and Analysis (GRISERA) framework, which provides a persistent model for storing integrated signals and methods for its creation. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first approach in Affective Computing field that addresses the problem of integrating data from multiple experiments, storing it in a consistent way, and providing query patterns for data retrieval. The proposed framework is based on the standardized graph model, which is known to be highly suitable for signal processing purposes. The validation proved that data from the well-known AMIGOS dataset can be stored in the GRISERA framework and later retrieved for training deep learning models. Furthermore, the second case study proved that it is possible to integrate signals from multiple sources (AMIGOS, ASCERTAIN, and DEAP) into GRISERA and retrieve them for further statistical analysis.
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Xu S, Rwei AY, Vwalika B, Chisembele MP, Stringer JSA, Ginsburg AS, Rogers JA. Wireless skin sensors for physiological monitoring of infants in low-income and middle-income countries. Lancet Digit Health 2021; 3:e266-e273. [PMID: 33640306 DOI: 10.1016/s2589-7500(21)00001-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2020] [Revised: 11/21/2020] [Accepted: 12/18/2020] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Globally, neonatal mortality remains unacceptability high. Physiological monitoring is foundational to the care of these vulnerable patients to assess neonatal cardiopulmonary status, guide medical intervention, and determine readiness for safe discharge. However, most existing physiological monitoring systems require multiple electrodes and sensors, which are linked to wires tethered to wall-mounted display units, to adhere to the skin. For neonates, these systems can cause skin injury, prevent kangaroo mother care, and complicate basic clinical care. Novel, wireless, and biointegrated sensors provide opportunities to enhance monitoring capabilities, reduce iatrogenic injuries, and promote family-centric care. Early validation data have shown performance equivalent to (and sometimes exceeding) standard-of-care monitoring systems in premature neonates cared for in high-income countries. The reusable nature of these sensors and compatibility with low-cost mobile phones have the future potential to enable substantially lower monitoring costs compared with existing systems. Deployment at scale, in low-income countries, holds the promise of substantial improvements in neonatal outcomes.
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- Shuai Xu
- Querrey Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA; Department of Biomedical Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA; Department of Dermatology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA; Department of Pediatrics, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Querrey Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA; Department of Chemical Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Querrey Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA; Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA; Department of Biomedical Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA; Department of Materials Science and Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA; Department of Neurological Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.
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Laussen PC. Sharing and learning through the Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Consortium: Moving toward precision care. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2020; 161:2195-2199. [PMID: 32680641 PMCID: PMC7286268 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2020.05.092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2020] [Revised: 05/06/2020] [Accepted: 05/08/2020] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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- Peter C Laussen
- Department of Critical Care Medicine, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Department of Anesthesia, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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