Chapter 16
Use of Artificial Intelligence in Sepsis Detection and Management
Neha Deo and Rahul Kashyap
Mayo Clinic
CONTENTS
16.1 Background
In the United States, 750,000 people are diagnosed with sepsis every year (Bansal et al., 2018), accounting for 250,000 deaths (Harrison et al., 2015) and 51% of total ICU admissions (Bansal et al., 2018). Sepsis is a complex disease with an even more complex management and treatment process. Diagnosis of sepsis consists of suspected or proven infection and systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS). Delay in diagnosis places a burden on the healthcare system, ...
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