Intelligent analysis in predicting outcome of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest

  • Authors:
  • Miljenko Krizmaric;Mateja Verlic;Gregor Stiglic;Stefek Grmec;Peter Kokol

  • Affiliations:
  • Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Maribor, Zitna 15, Maribor, Slovenia;Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Maribor, Smetanova 17, Maribor, Slovenia;Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Maribor, Zitna 15, Maribor, Slovenia and Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Maribor, Smetanova 17, Maribor, Slovenia;Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Vrazov trg 2, Ljubljana, Slovenia and Faculty of Medicine, University of Maribor, Slomskov trg 15, Maribor, Slovenia and Centre for Emergency Medicine ...;Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Maribor, Zitna 15, Maribor, Slovenia and Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Maribor, Smetanova 17, Maribor, Slovenia

  • Venue:
  • Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The prognosis among patients who suffer out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is poor. Higher survival rates have been observed only in patients with ventricular fibrillation who were fortunate enough to have basic and advanced life support initiated early after cardiac arrest. The ability to predict outcomes of cardiac arrest would be useful for resuscitation chains. Levels of EtCO"2in expired air from lungs during cardiopulmonary resuscitation may serve as a non-invasive predictor of successful resuscitation and survival from cardiac arrest. Six different supervised learning classification techniques were used and evaluated. It has been shown that machine learning methods can provide an efficient way to detect important prognostic factors upon which further emergency unit actions are based.