This work presents a novel method for applying test-time augmentation (TTA) to tabular data. We used TTA along with an ensemble of 42 models achieve higher performance on the MIT Global Open Source Severity Illness Score dataset consisting 131,051 ICU visits and outcomes. achieved AUC 0.915 private test set (19,669 admissions) won first place at Stanford University's WiDS Datathon 2020 challeng...

BACKGROUND Limited data are available assessing vancomycin concentrations in obese critically ill patients. Currently, there are no studies evaluating dosing requirements in this population who receive vancomycin administered as a continuous infusion (CI). The aim of this study was to assess whether there was a difference in the weight-based maintenance dose required to reach a therapeutic vanc...

INTRODUCTION Mechanical ventilation of patients may be accomplished by either translaryngeal intubation or tracheostomy. Although numerous intensive care unit (ICU) studies have compared various outcomes between the two techniques, no definitive consensus indicates that tracheostomy is superior. Comparable studies have not been performed in a respiratory care center (RCC) setting. METHODS Thi...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to evaluate the clinical usefulness of open lung biopsy (OLB) in patients undergoing mechanical ventilation for diffuse pulmonary infiltrates of unknown etiology. METHODS This was a 10-year retrospective study in a 10-bed medical intensive care unit. The medical records of 36 ventilator-dependent patients who underwent OLB for the diagnosis of unknown ...

Pleural infection, or pleural empyema, is a severe medical condition associated with high morbidity and mortality rates. Timely accurate prognostication crucial for optimizing patient outcomes resource allocation. Rapid scoring systems have emerged as promising tools in infection prognostication, integrating various clinical laboratory parameters to assess disease severity quantitatively predic...