The COVID pandemic resulted in a high incidence of patients with respiratory distress. While the use of mechanical ventilation helped some patients, others experienced acute lung failure, leading to a steady increase in the need for ECMO. The challenge with patients on ECMO is that even the smallest movement can be life-threatening, resulting in the need for constant bedside supervision. Staff at Johns Hopkins needed to monitor these complex patients while finding ways to reduce frontline...

Medicine and healthcare can use advanced data science technology to predict patient deterioration and risk.  However, challenges in data aggregation, access, and sharing can slow adoption and use of these technologies.   Listen in to hear from Dr. Nagy and Dr. Bergmann from Johns Hopkins Medicine and learn more about how they have solved the data challenge and are working with institutions across the country to accelerate the field.   Learn more about:  The Johns Hopkins Precision...

Data science, machine learning, and AI can be applied to a wide spectrum of healthcare tasks, from modeling the spread of COVID across a city to arrhythmia detection on an individual patient. Using these tools requires data and expertise from both engineering and medical communities. While these groups often collaborate on worthwhile projects, it can be difficult to start new projects across industries and institutions due to a variety of factors including geography, contracting, and...

Sedation is a necessary part of managing any patient during and after surgery, but also has well-known risks, including respiratory depression. When it comes to neonates and babies, sedation management is even more complex due to the size of these patients, their underdeveloped systems, and their inability to communicate. These factors not only lead to other short-term risks such as severe respiratory failure, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, hemodynamic failure, necrotizing enterocolitis and...

The specialty of neonatal hemodynamics has the potential to reduce death and brain injury among premature babies. While widely adopted in other countries as a standard of care, the specialty is beginning to gain traction in the U.S. because of the promise it holds in enabling increased precision in the identification of patients at greatest risk of cardiovascular morbidity, a more targeted approach to use of medical therapy, and enhanced longitudinal appraisal of response to treatment. For a...

Up to 48% of post-op pediatric cardiac patients with congenital heart defects develop post-operative arrhythmias. Junctional ectopic tachycardia (JET) is considered the most common type of tachycardia seen during early post-operative care, but there are currently no automated detection algorithms for JET. Dr. Jain  discusses how he leveraged both data and expertise across academic and industry partners to create algorithms to detect JET. Hear how this approach can accelerate clinically...

Neonates with critical congenital heart disease have an immature cardiovascular systems and increased risks for hemodynamic instability and sudden cardiac arrest. Hemodynamic management of these patients helps decrease that risk. Dr. Lasa discusses how he and his colleagues at Texas Children’s Hospital use data and remote monitoring tools to better manage these complex patients in everyday patient care at one of the largest cardiac intensive care units dedicated to neonates with congenital...

Patients with hypoplastic left heart syndrome have a high risk of critical deterioration. And since their physiologic profile differs from other patient populations, specialized clinical training is required to care for these patients. Join Dr. Craig Rusin as he discusses how he and his colleagues use data to predict these events before they happen.