Elucidating the fuzziness in physician decision making in ARDS.
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SUBMITTER: Bernstein DB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3656147 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jun
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Elucidating the fuzziness in physician decision making in ARDS.
Bernstein David B DB Nguyen Binh B Allen Gilman B GB Bates Jason H T JH
Journal of clinical monitoring and computing 20130306 3
The current standard of care for patients suffering from acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is ventilation with a tidal volume of 6 ml/kg predicted body weight (PBW), but variability remains in the tidal volumes that are actually used. This study aims to identify patient scenarios for which there is discordance between physicians in choice of tidal volume and positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) in ARDS patients. We developed an algorithm based on fuzzy logic for encapsulating the exp ...[more]
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