Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2001, Volume 2101/2001, 131-135, DOI: 10.1007/3-540-48229-6_18

Diagnosing Patient State in Intensive Care Patients Using the Intelligent Ventilator (INVENT) System

Stephen E. Rees, Charlotte Allerød, Søren Kjærgaard, Egon Toft, Per Thorgaard and Steen Andreassen

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Abstract

A method is presented to estimate parameters describing ICU patients’ ventilatory, circulatory, and metabolic state from simultaneous solution of models of O2 and CO2 transport. This method is shown to provide a consistent and reasonable picture of data from 5 ICU patients even without a pulmonary arterial catheter.

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