Economic significance of biofilms: a multidisciplinary and cross-sectoral challenge

M Cámara, W Green, CE MacPhee… - npj Biofilms and …, 2022 - nature.com
The increasing awareness of the significance of microbial biofilms across different sectors is
continuously revealing new areas of opportunity in the development of innovative …

Artificial intelligence explainability: the technical and ethical dimensions

JA McDermid, Y Jia, Z Porter… - … Transactions of the …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
In recent years, several new technical methods have been developed to make AI-models
more transparent and interpretable. These techniques are often referred to collectively as 'AI …

Caring for critically ill patients with the ABCDEF bundle: results of the ICU liberation collaborative in over 15,000 adults

BT Pun, MC Balas, MA Barnes-Daly… - Critical care …, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Objective: Decades-old, common ICU practices including deep sedation, immobilization,
and limited family access are being challenged. We endeavoured to evaluate the …

Effectiveness and safety of the awakening and breathing coordination, delirium monitoring/management, and early exercise/mobility bundle

MC Balas, EE Vasilevskis, KM Olsen… - Critical care …, 2014 - journals.lww.com
Objective: The debilitating and persistent effects of ICU-acquired delirium and weakness
warrant testing of prevention strategies. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the …

Ventilator weaning and discontinuation practices for critically ill patients

KEA Burns, L Rizvi, DJ Cook, G Lebovic, P Dodek… - Jama, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Although most critically ill patients receive invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV),
few studies have characterized how IMV is discontinued in practice. Objective To describe …

Extubation in neurocritical care patients: the ENIO international prospective study

R Cinotti, JC Mijangos, P Pelosi, M Haenggi… - Intensive care …, 2022 - Springer
Purpose Neurocritical care patients receive prolonged invasive mechanical ventilation
(IMV), but there is poor specific information in this high-risk population about the liberation …

Estimated demand for US hospital inpatient and intensive care unit beds for patients with COVID-19 based on comparisons with Wuhan and Guangzhou, China

R Li, C Rivers, Q Tan, MB Murray, E Toner… - JAMA network …, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Sustained spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-
CoV-2) has happened in major US cities. Capacity needs in cities in China could inform the …

A reinforcement learning approach to weaning of mechanical ventilation in intensive care units

N Prasad, LF Cheng, C Chivers, M Draugelis… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2017 - arxiv.org
The management of invasive mechanical ventilation, and the regulation of sedation and
analgesia during ventilation, constitutes a major part of the care of patients admitted to …

Trends in critical care beds and use among population groups and Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries in the United States: 2000–2010

NA Halpern, DA Goldman, KS Tan… - Critical care …, 2016 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: To analyze patterns of critical care medicine beds, use, and costs in acute care
hospitals in the United States and relate critical care medicine beds and use to population …

The role of explainability in assuring safety of machine learning in healthcare

Y Jia, J McDermid, T Lawton… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Established approaches to assuring safety-critical systems and software are difficult to apply
to systems employing ML where there is no clear, pre-defined specification against which to …