The Way to Success: Oxygen Consumption (VO2), Effort and Weaning in Mechanically Ventilated Patients in the Intensive Care Unit

Critically ill, mechanically ventilated patients require a substantial amount of energy to meet their basic metabolic demands, as well as for their recovery, spontaneous breathing, gaining of strength, and weaning from the ventilator. It is important for patients to use their energy as efficient as possible at all stages of the disease and...

An AI algorithm to predict intubations in ICU patients: Predicting intubation to aid medical personnel in the decision to switch from High Flow Nasal Oxygen therapy to intubation

Maasstad Hospital is a member of the Santeon hospital group. The ambition of Santeon is to improve healthcare for patients. The project in this internship also aims to improve patients’ health, specifically patients in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).<br/>The treatment of respiratory insufficient patients in the ICU consists of High Flow Nasal...

The ICU-Recover Box: Using Smart Technology For Monitoring Health Status After ICU Admission

Patients who are admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) are extremely ill and at high risk of organ failure and death. Being admitted to the ICU is known to cause long lasting physical, cognitive, and physiological symptoms, which is called Post-Intensive Care syndrome (PICS). To provide better management of PICS, early recognition and...

Detection of patient-ventilator asynchrony based on esophageal pressure using a convolutional neural network

Introduction: In intensive care units (ICU), the most significant life support technology for patients with acute respiratory failure is mechanical ventilation. A mismatch between ventilatory support and patient demand is referred to as patient-ventilator asynchrony (PVA), and it is associated with a series of adverse...

Is the Microcirculation the Key in Understanding the Development of Shock After Cardiothoracic Surgery?

Cardiothoracic surgery is a common treatment for cardiovascular diseases. Patients are admitted to the ICU after cardiothoracic surgery for continuous monitoring to prevent or treat postoperative complications as much and as soon as possible. One of these complications is the development of circulatory shock. It is likely caused by one or a...

Validation of the Hypotension Prediction Index on the Intensive Care Patient Population

A low blood pressure (hypotension, as mean arterial pressure &lt; 65 mmHg) in patients on the intensive care unit (ICU) is associated with adverse outcomes and death. Proactive treatment with the use of a predictive alarm could improve patient outcome. The Hypotension Prediction Index (HPI) is a machinelearning algorithm that uses arterial blood...

Tailored non-invasive ventilation masks for paediatric intensive care

This project aims to develop tailored non-invasive ventilation (NIV) masks for children in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), to offer suitable masks and to improve the NIV intervention. In the PICU, there is a preference for NIV compared to invasive ventilation, because of complications, such as airway injuries. Their biggest challenge...

Care Tunes: Music as a nurses' monitoring tool

Nurses working in the ICU of the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam are exposed to a vast amount of sounds from medical equipment. The amount of alarms nurses cope with causes alarms fatigue, which causes nurses to become desensitised to alarms. Not only is this a threat to patient safety, it also causes stress.<br/>Care Tunes is a product...