Posted on 09/03/2021 9:28:36 PM PDT by DoodleBob
US researchers have developed an online tool using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help medical staff quickly determine which Covid-19 patients will need help breathing with a ventilator. The team at Case Western Reserve University developed the tool, through analysis of CT scans from nearly 900 Covid-19 patients diagnosed in 2020, and is able to predict ventilator need with 84 per cent accuracy.
“That could be important for physicians as they plan how to care for a patient and, of course, for the patient and their family to know,” said Anant Madabhushi, Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Case Western Reserve. “It could also be important for hospitals as they determine how many ventilators they’ll need,” he added.
Among the more common symptoms of severe Covid-19 cases is the need for patients to be placed on ventilators to ensure they will be able to continue to take in enough oxygen as they breathe.
Yet, almost from the start of the pandemic, the number of ventilators needed to support such patients far outpaced available supplies, to the point that hospitals began “splitting” ventilators, a practice in which a ventilator assists more than one patient.
“These can be gut-wrenching decisions for hospitals deciding who is going to get the most help against an aggressive disease,” Madabhushi said.
The findings are detailed in the IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics.
The team began their efforts to develop the tool by evaluating the initial scans taken in 2020 from nearly 900 patients from the US and from Wuhan, China, among the first known cases of the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
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Ah, optimizing who they need to kill next and quickly.
“What does the CoviTron 2000 have to say about our influx of Covid patients?”
“Hmm...The printout reads: ‘Vent them all. Let Todd sort them out.’”
They should give the AI more options than just ventilators.
Couldn’t do worse the NIH and CDC.
Open the hospital bay doors please Hal.
Sorry, Dave, I can’t do that. You must be put on a ventilator.
A ventilator is a death sentence for most people.
How many die?
70%-75%.
They scare you into saying yes by claiming that your current blood oxygen level will cause permanent brain damage.
They sedate you before the procedure starts, and you never wake up.
Most should view Elon Musk’s numerous videos on AI and the future of AI.....I think some will get goosebumps from his warnings, for sure.
At the end of the day, the only AI output, came from an input.
AI won’t eliminate bias.
I have worked in “machine learning”, and the job was to correct and teach AI identification and analysis.
My entire “team bias” will be reflected in the AI applications.
BLUF = Junk In = Junk Out.
No such thing as an author without bias.
Just hope the bias is true, moral, and just to reality.
“They scare you into saying yes by claiming that your current blood oxygen level will cause permanent brain damage.
They sedate you before the procedure starts, and you never wake up.”
EXACTLY CORRECT !!!
AND NEAR ZERO DEVIANCE TO THIS PROTOCOL!
Case Western ping
Do they at least play soothing classical music while they carry out the procedure, and project nature scenes on the walls while you slowly expire?
Regards,
No choice but to resort to artificial intelligence when no actual intelligence is available.
Re: while you slowly expire
Slowly is the operative word.
They need to bill for at least 48 hours in the ICU to maximize revenue.
Washington D.C. is happy no matter what - another Social Security check and Medicare coverage terminated.
My dad had numerous heart attacks. Several times he was put on a ventilator. Although it is always difficult to wean people off of it, he was always able to get off ventilator. Is it harder to accomplish this with covid!
There’s supposed to be nine health conditions, which predetermine your likely chances of entering the hospital and dying of Covid. Improving your odds even with a ventilator? It doesn’t work that way.
If a machine tells the doctors what to do, do they think that will give them an alibi?
“I was just doing what Dr. A.I. told me to do. I didn’t know their recommended treatment would kill people so it’s not my fault they died.”
Are they still following the NIH protocol? That should be just as good as being told what to do by AI.
They sedate you before the procedure starts, and you never wake up.
no joke. They keep you away from the prophylactics until the disease progresses to this point of not return
Common sense, not AI, might lead this practitioners to set a different priority and protocol for treatment.
Y’think?
Because code writers back in the cubical farm writing code for the Artificial Intelligence “tool” know so much more about patient care than the doctors in the hospital.
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