Predictive analytics for ICU Ventilators
Are you involved with mechanical ventilation either as a clinician or manufacturer/provider? If so we would love to hear from you.
This video quickly explains our technology.
Mechanical Ventilation is a lifesaving tool.
However over exposure can initiate and propagate lung injury, leading to increased length of stays and complications, increased mortality rates and thus increased costs for hospital organisations
Lung protective ventilation is currently the only treatment in which care givers have to manually monitor ventilator parameters to ensure patient is being managed efficiently and safely. However, compliance with lung protective ventilation (LPV) is currently as low as 15% of patients.
Our Value Proposition
Revolutionary
Our technology revolutionises the delivery of mechanical ventilation. We predict threshold breaches of the accepted LPV parameters 1 hour of ahead in time allowing for early intervention before the threshold is breached. This alert one hour ahead allows the care giver to prevent the breach from occurring and thus ensures the lung remains protected.
Our research shows that on average, more than 70% of the alerts generated per patient would have been predicted using our technology and thus could have been prevented. Further our results show that we can predict values of the given parameter within 10% of the true values.
The creation of the SAIV dashboard will allow for visualization and analysis of ventilator parameters for care givers. The alerts will allow for early prevention which reduces workload/number of alerts in the future and ensures the lungs remain protected. Our predictions will also reduce the number of false positive alerts which exist in current ventilator systems.
End Users
The end user is the clinicians (doctors and nurses) based in the ICUs who interact with the alerts/dashboard who want to improve patient care and LPV compliance. They will further be interested in how SAIV can decrease work load and the number of alerts they have to respond to.
Our Team
SAIV is a research group from Queen’s University Belfast and our team is comprised of the below members. For more information please get in touch.
Rachael Hagan
Co-Founder & CEO
Rachael Hagan is a Research Fellow and PhD candidate at Queen’s University, Belfast. She holds a First Class Honors degree in Computer Science and has experience working as a Product Developer, advancing her skills in both software development and UX design.
Her PhD research focuses on the application of machine learning methods to ICU data for predictive analytics, with various publications, in order to enhance patient care and clinical outcomes. By completing a multidisciplinary PhD, Hagan has extensive understanding of the implementation of scientific methodologies for real world clinical problems.
Charles Gillan
Co-Founder & CTO
Dr Gillan studied Applied Mathematics and Physics under Professor Sir David Bates FRS at Queen's University Belfast, completing his PhD with Prof P G Burke FRS CBE in the field
of low energy electron molecule scattering.
After a career in the telecommunications industry he returned to work at the ECIT Institute at QUB in 2004. He continues his research in high performance computing applied to physics, chemistry and physiology and has published over fifty research papers. Outside work he is a pilot and UK flight instructor and speaks fluent German and French.
Murali Shyamsundar
Co-Founder & CMO
Dr Murali Shyamsundar is a NIHR clinician Scientist Fellow/Senior Lecturer/Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine.
His research programme includes development of novel pharmacotherapies to prevent and treat pulmonary injury and development of clinical decision support to improve translation of evidence to practice.
Stuart Campbell
TTO
Stuart is the Business Development Manager for QUB’s Centre for Data Science and Scalable Computing and has 10 + years of experience working within the technology sector.
Originally working to secure Foreign Direct Investment from US multinationals and now more frequently with early-stage startups, SMEs and large companies within Northern Ireland. Stuart is also the Northern Ireland Contact Point for European Research in ICT.
Martin Bell
Business Advisor
Martin is business advisor to SAIV, and runs his own consultancy The Martin Bell Partnership, supporting many start ups, large corporates, private equity and healthcare providers over the past nearly 5 years.
Martin has some 20 years in healthcare, first as a CIO in the NHS, and then as Deputy MD of the UK's largest clinical systems providers. Before that Martin worked outside healthcare in blue chip software development, construction, defence and retail.
For more information please get in touch with us.
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