Tag: intensive care unit
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Podcast: Clinicians’ ‘Number-One Wish’ for Artificial Intelligence
…we installed cheap depth sensors that can collect human behavior data on patients and clinicians without infringing on their privacy, because these are not photo grabs of people’s faces and identities. With that information, we can observe longitudinally, 24/7, whether proper care is being given to our patients and provide feedback in the health delivery…
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AI outperforms clinicians in triaging post-operative patients for ICUe.
Artificial intelligence correctly triaged 41 of the 50 patients in the study (82%). Surgeons had an accuracy triage rate of 70% (35 patients), intensivists 64% (32 patients), and anaesthesiologists 58% (29 patients). The number of incorrect triage decisions was lowest for AI (18%), followed by 30% for surgeons, 36% for intensivists, and 42% for anaesthesiologists.…
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Proposal abstract: Training in the ICU for physiotherapy students with a visual impairment (a case study)
Abstract for a project proposal that I submitted for ethics review earlier this week. If it gets approved we’ll begin data collection on our first visually impaired undergraduate student placement in the intensive care unit. The Department of Physiotherapy at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) began accepting students with visual impairments (VI) into…