The work performed and the main achievements can be sectioned to the four use cases:
- Use Case #1 - Silent ICU:
The technology behind the "Silent ICU" concept, from the vendors Ascom, B.Braun and Dräger partially got launched in 2024 and first prototypical demonstrators got installed. The work in the next two project years will focus on the installation in the Erasmus MC and the evaluation. But for the technical requirements for that use case, the main step has been done.
Also for the clinical study itself, with the study design and protocol, most of the prerequisites have been completed, so that we are aiming to start with the study in early 2025.
- Use Case #2 – Smart Alarms:
Enabling smart alarm algorithms in the future, requires the new concepts and further design and development in the technological infrastructure of information systems in clinics. For that, we have designed an architecture for alarm transmission systems and remote notifying devices as well as the basic rule engine to select which alarms are relevant to the user in the actual clinical context. Next, we will further develop this system to later be able to evaluate it in first user studies.
- Use Case #3 – Smart ICU:
A PICS outpatient clinic has been opened in the Clinic in Vienna and is now building a first point of contact for patients that have stayed on the ICU previously and thus collecting data about their well-being and potential development of PICS. Additionally, the technological infrastructure, to collect medical device information of such patients has been designed and is now to be installed and included in the clinical study for further insights in the early development of PICS.
- Use Case #4 – Smart ICU:
The data collection for the first four clinical studies has been started, in order to later predict critical conditions in ICU patients e.g. with ARDS, septic shock or readiness for weaning.
