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IMANCUAGEMENT & PRACTICE IntensIve care - emergency medIcIne - anaesthesIology VOLUME 19 - ISSUE 4 - WINTER 2019/2020 The Future IcU the Future of haemodynamic monitoring: From Planet mars to resource-limited countries, F. Michard, M. Fortunato, A. Pratas, S. Rodrigues de Oliveira clinical decision support systems: Future or Present in IcU? A. Naharro-Abellán, B. Lobo-Valbuena, F. Gordo the Future of critical care Ultrasound, A. Butnar, A. Wong, S. Ho, M. Malbrain Future IcU design: return to high visibility, D. Hamilton, S. Swoboda, C. Cadenhead a Framework for addressing seasonal Influenza: a critical care Perspective, L. Busse, C. Coopersmith Will artificial Intelligence change IcU Practice? V. Herasevich, M. Keegan, M. Johnston, B. Pickering Future strategies in sedation and analgesia, B. Pastene, M. Leone critical care telemedicine: a management Fad or the Future of IcU Practice? K. Iliopoulou, A. Xyrichis the Intersection of Big data, artificial Intelligence, Precision and Predictive medicine to create the Future of critical care, G. Martin the Intelligent Intensive care Unit: Integrating care, research and education, E. Cox, I. van der Horst. Plus Introducing the Intubation credit card, A. Higgs, S. shaping the human side of medical devices in Goodhand, A. Joyce critical care: the Implication of human Factor Improving recognition of neonatal sepsis, M. Harris, studies in clinical settings, M. Micocci, A. Tase, M. Ni, A. Masino, R. Grundmeier P. Buckle, F. Rubulotta lifesaving applications of transoesophageal echocar- diagnosis, treatment and management of the diography in critical and emergency care, R. Arntfield critically Ill Patient, R. Moreno icu-management.org @ICU_Management 228 COVER STORY: THE FUTURE ICU Greg S. Martin Professor of Medicine Executive Associate Division The Intersection of Big Director Division of Pulmonary, Al- lergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine Data, Artificial Emory University School of Medicine Critical Care Medical Director Intelligence, Precision Grady Memorial Hospital [email protected] and Predictive Medicine to Create the Future of Critical Care Over the next 50 years, critical care will evolve from a system that reacts to patient deterioration into a system that predicts and prevents these events. The application of real-time analytics to large-scale integrated ICU patient data will facilitate creation of learning healthcare systems and delivery of personalised and even predictive critical care medicine. ver the next 50 years, critical and unpredictable acute illnesses. rollout of 5G connectivity will increase care will evolve from a system Already in the present day, patients exponentially machine-to-machine traf- Othat reacts to patient deterio- in critical care units generate extraordi- fic to more than 50% of internet traffic ration into a system that predicts and nary amounts of data, from diagnostic by 2022 (Cisco 2019; McKinsey 2017a; prevents these events. The pathway to and laboratory testing, provider notes, McKinsey 2017b). The IoT already exists in proactive critical care involves technical intermittent and continuous monitoring healthcare, being used to track equipment, and computing advances that integrate equipment, and myriad support devices patients and even providers throughout large-scale clinical data from critically ill such as mechanical ventilators. In the near the hospital. Although the evolution of IoT patients and applies complex analytics in future, the panoply of monitoring devices devices and other monitoring equipment real-time to personalise care and predict will take advantage of secure wireless complement the developments outside of untoward events. These advances will connections to facilitate contactless patient healthcare, such as in computing technol- facilitate creation of learning healthcare monitoring that functions seamlessly across ogy and the consumer markets, they have systems and delivery of personalised and healthcare environments such as the ED, unique needs in healthcare. For example, even predictive critical care medicine. In radiology, OR and the ICU. Outside of healthcare has greater demands on secure the not-so-distant future, ICU patients will healthcare, in the consumer market we communications as well as reliability and look vastly different than the patients we are already experiencing the explosion safety across patient environments such see today with multiple organ dysfunc- of internet-connected devices known as the ICU, OR, radiology, emergency tion, as we predict and prevent critical as the internet of things (IoT). Those department, pre-hospital setting and more. illness and become an environment where devices, estimated to be as many as 200 Imagine for healthcare to adopt the individualised care is delivered to patients billion by 2020 (Intel 2019), are now manufacturing production principles recovering from unforeseen traumatic using a small fraction of internet traffic of big data, where the introduction of injuries, increasingly complex surgeries but non-human, but the coming global comprehensive, real-time data collec- ICU Management & Practice 4 - 2019/2020 229 COVER STORY: THE FUTURE ICU tion and analysis results in fantastically example, the inability to consistently patients will appear as the mean (e.g. the more responsive production systems. acquire and interpret ultrasound images point estimate from a clinical study) and In healthcare, in order for the growing limits the application of one of our most are amenable to system-level interventions, constellation of monitoring, testing and available technologies. The ubiquitous whilst individual patients rarely fall exactly data to be clinically valuable, it must be nature of ultrasound in the future of criti- at the exact point estimate but are likely integrated in real-time with the entire cal care makes it necessary to solve this to fall within the range of results from the spectrum of clinical data in order to problem, and the combination of AI and group (e.g. the confidence interval), and ensure the delivery of timely, high qual- computing interfaces makes this possible. individual responses may be optimised ity patient care. An important next step or predicted by fully characterising each in handling the impending explosion of unique patient. data generated by critical care patients is in the near future, Integration of data permits the conver- data harmonisation. Our current lack of sion of the traditional ICU to a learning inter-operability between electronic health the panoply of monitoring healthcare system. A learning healthcare record (EHR) systems is confounded by devices will take advantage system (LHS) is defined by the Institute multiple instances of duplicated data. of secure wireless of Medicine as a system in which science, For example, in the data warehouse for informatics, incentives, and culture are one of our hospitals, there are multiple connections to facilitate aligned for continuous improvement and entries for haemoglobin, each recorded contactless patient innovation, with best practices seamlessly with a different label: ED-Hgb, OB-Hgb, embedded in the delivery process and STAT-Hgb and regular inpatient-Hgb, monitoring that new knowledge captured as an integral outpatient-Hgb, neonatal-Hgb and point- functions seamlessly by-product of the delivery experience of-care-Hgb! Harmonising data variables across healthcare (Institute of Medicine 2007). A LHS is a and concatenating these instances is one sociotechnical system with afferent and step towards clinically effective data report- environments efferent components where the affer- ing and utilisation. ent component assembles, analyses and Harnessing the full spectrum of clini- interprets data from various sources, and cal data needed to care for ICU patients the efferent component returns these find- requires advancing the underlying tech- The effective integration of clinical ings to the healthcare system in order to nologies that make it feasible. Computing critical care data at scale with real-time favourably change clinical practice. The power is now in the realm where basic analytics is the foundation for changes at afferent side is made possible by recent streams of real-time data can be aggre- each end of the medical care spectrum. technical innovations such as EHR data gated and reported, such as clinical lab At the level of healthcare systems, it enables and the IoT, and efferent side incorporates testing, nurse-recorded vital signs and iterative system-level improvements that elements such as behavioural psychology, intravenous infusion pump data. The next produce consistent, cutting-edge, reli- implementation science, behavioural steps require the computing and storage able, high quality care. At the level of economics, policy and organisational capabilities to handle the entire river of the individual patient, it enables care to be theory in order to effect change. The real-time data, and the associated analytic customised for each patient according to collision of big data harmonisation, EHR capacity to efficiently drive patient care. the current state of their acute and chronic interoperability and AI will make easier In the coming years, the application of conditions, while taking into account other the transition of each hospital from a artificial intelligence and machine learning relevant factors such as social support and traditional healthcare environment to a will solve some of the vexing problems other determinants of health. In essence, learning healthcare