What if we could detect ARDS hours before the onset?

ARDS often develops in Emergency Departments (ED)[10] or general hospital wards[11], well ahead of ICU admission. Complex aetiology means ARDS can be unrecognisable - even to the most experienced eyes, until clinical deterioration becomes clear. [12]

Critical care teams are faced with information-dense monitoring, often from disparate sources - some returning results hours after the fact. It's hard to build a cohesive clinical picture that identifies patients at risk of serious deterioration or death [14,15] - forcing reactive management decisions and delayed intervention.

Delayed critical care intervention is independently associated with a 47% higher mortality rate in ARDS patients than when acute deterioration is recognised and responded to in a timely fashion. [13]

Early intervention has been shown to decrease likelihood of ARDS onset in at-risk patients [20,24]. Timely detection of deterioration and early intervention not only improves survival [21,22,25,26] but reduces severity of serious complications [23,25,26] responsible for long-term disabilities currently faced by >60% of ARDS survivors [6-9].

Software-based technology can use existing hospital electronic medical records (EMR) to identify patients at risk of serious deterioration or death [16-19].

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