Even when the lights are low and the hallways quiet, save for the squeak of the night-shift nurses shoes, theres something else keeping a watchful eye on patients with serious coronavirus infections at UVA Health.
Here, patients with COVID-19 are monitored not just by a phalanx of nurses, physicians and specialists, but also by artificial intelligence software designed by a University of Virginia physician thats continuously computing their physiological data in order to predict whether life-threatening trouble might arise. Using numbers drawn every two seconds, and models updated every 15 minutes, the software actually predicts possible clinical issues before they happen, giving clinicians especially nurses critical time to head off a potential crisis hours before it strikes.
Since last July, patients with all kinds of serious illnesses convalescing on UVA Healths fourth floor in the Medical Intensive Care Unit, the Special Pathogens Unit, Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit, Critical Care Unit, and the Surgical Intensive Care Unit and Intermediary Care Unit have the added benefit of CoMET, new software that uses continuous monitoring and computer algorithms to create a visual portrait of a patients risk of experiencing a serious event over the next 12 hours. Moment-to-moment data is drawn from a patients EKG, laboratory results and vital signs to create a graphic representing risk on a large LCD screen. That visual helps clinicians gauge patients stability and risk for clinical issues, and, if needed, to determine what actions should be taken to protect a patients health.
Like a barometer of risk, stable patients comets are small, yellow and nestle close to the X-Y axis on the display. But if the risk level rises, the comets grow, turn bright orange or deep red, and crawl up and across the screen like plump, shooting stars, indicating cardiovascular instability, respiratory instability or both.
These colorful graphics signal clinicians to employ proactive strategies to stabilize patients vital signs before serious medical events, such as sepsis, blood poisoning, respiratory distress or cardiac instability, and the need for ICU-level care happen. For one patient, nursing staff spotted an expanding comet and quickly adjusted oxygen flow, suctioned the patients mouth and closely monitored the patients status. For another patient, whose growing risk appeared along the cardiovascular axis, nurses alerted physicians to reassess red blood cell levels, ultimately deciding that the patient needed a transfusion.
For COVID patients, said CoMETs creator, UVA cardiologist Dr. Randall Moorman, the system is especially beneficial, given how quickly and unpredictably their prognoses can change.
Vital sign measurements and labs can come too late, Moorman, also a professor of medicine, explained, but early detection through predictive analytics has the power to improve patients outcomes, especially for catastrophic illnesses like COVID-19.
CoMET is also a boon given the most recent worldwide increase of COVID-19 cases.
Using precision predictive analytics systems like this one helps nurses initiate clinical response before the scenario becomes, quite literally, life and death, said Jessica Keim-Malpass, a professor in the School of Nursing and Moormans research partner. She published her research on CoMETs important aid to nurses on COVID units in the current issue of the International Journal of Nursing Studies Advances.
Keim-Malpass and UVA cardiologist Jamie Bourque recently began a two-year, randomized controlled study of the software across UVA Healths entire fourth floor, which includes the Coronary Intensive Care Unit and the Thoracic/Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit, thanks to a $600,000 bequest from the Frederick Thomas estate. Over the next two years, theyll randomly assign a CoMET display to half the beds and compare the outcomes of patients in the experimental and control groups to determine the systems efficacy and impact.
Moorman has long been a pioneer in the field of predictive analytics. Twenty years ago, he and his coworkers discovered that premature babies exhibited abnormal heart rate patterns in the hours before being diagnosed with life-threatening sepsis, and developed a visual risk display similar to CoMETs called HeRO to alert clinicians to infants whose prognoses were growing worse. In the largest randomized trial of its kind, they found that 3,000 at-risk, low-birth-weight babies across nine hospitals who had a HeRO display at their bedside were 20% less likely to die.
CoMETs approach stands alone. Unlike other software that uses a point system or thresholds to calculate a patients risk for potential clinical issues, CoMET analyzes each new data point from the patients Electronic Health Record and bedside monitor, making sense of subtle changes across multiple predictors to continuously update and calculate their risk. Other patient monitoring systems offer a portrait of risk at four- or eight-hour intervals, or use alarms that contribute to alarm fatigue. (Another hospital study found that 90% of the 187 audible alarms that ring each day require no action.)
CoMETs value goes beyond predicting adverse events, too. With its bold visuals, it also enables clinicians to assess the impact of therapies in real time, enhances assessments and interventions through an additional health indicator, and gives nurses more autonomy and the ability to be proactive in their care delivery.
Moorman and Keim-Malpass say the new UVA Health study will provide another opportunity to fine-tune the technology in a moment when CoMET holds great promise for health systems seeking to improve their care of COVID patients.
In the fight against COVID-19, Keim-Malpass said, CoMET offers us the potential to change the clinical paradigm from reactive to proactive.
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