Intradialytic hypotension (IDH) is the most common complication of hemodialysis, occurring in 25-50% of patients. IDH leads to a number of clinical symptoms, including: dizziness, cramping, loss of consciousness, loss of dialysis effectiveness, arteriovenous fistula, blood deficiency in the small intestine etc.
Research shows that IDH not only impacts patients' quality of life, it can also increase risk of cardiac arrhythmia, chronic or acute blood deficiency in circulatory or nervous tissue, and reduce life expectancy.
AcuSense Biomedical using a time series algorithm, vital sign feature extraction, and data collection from dialysis machines and patients to predict risk of IDH. Before a patient will occur IDH, the system alerts nursing staff to enable timely preventative measures. This IDH prediction system can simultaneously monitor multiple dialysis wards in real time and provide accurate estimates of risk. With the aid of the IDH prediction system, nursing staff is alerted in real time to intervene before blood pressure continues to drop.
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