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 c

Leveraging a Precision Medicine Platform to Accelerate Research

May 4th, 2021 10m 13s

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. Genevera Allen, Data2Knowledge Lab, Rice University

Mar 24th, 2021 9m 8s

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 b

Dr. Barbara-Jo Achuff, Texas Children's Hospital

Feb 22nd, 2021 10m 3s

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 th

Dr. Danielle Rios, University of Iowa

Dec 18th, 2020 9m 26s

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

Dr. Parag Jain, Baylor College of Medicine

Nov 30th, 2020 8m 6s

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

Dr. Javier Lasa, Texas Children's Hospital

Nov 13th, 2020 8m 56s

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 disc

Healthcare Data Matters Episode #1: Automated Prediction of Cardiorespiratory Deterioration Events in Single Ventricle Patients

Nov 9th, 2020 7m 15s

Patients with hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) 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. J

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