Author/Editor     Križmarić, Miljenko; Verlič, Mateja; Štiglic, Gregor; Grmec, Štefek; Kokol, Peter
Title     Intelligent analysis in predicting outcome of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
Type     članek
Source     Comput Methods Programs Biomed
Vol. and No.     Letnik 95, št. Suppl. 1
Publication year     2009
Volume     str. S22-32
Language     eng
Abstract     The prognosis among patients who suffer out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is poor. Higher survival rates have been observed only in patients with ventricular fibrillation who were fortunate enough to have basic and advanced life support initiated early after cardiac arrest. The ability to predict outcomes of cardiac arrest would be useful for resuscitation chains. Levels of EtCO2 in expired air from lungs during cardiopulmonary resuscitation may serve as a non-invasive predictor of successful resuscitation and survival from cardiac arrest. Six different supervised learning classification techniques were used and evaluated. It has been shown that machine learning methods can provide an efficient way to detect important prognostic factors upon which further emergency unit actions are based.
Descriptors     HEART ARREST
CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION
TREATMENT OUTCOME
SURVIVAL
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE