Abstract
Physicians in Intensive Care Units (ICU) have to deal with shocked patients very often. These are critical emergencies that require rapid and precise clinical reactions in order to avoid fatal organ decline and patient’s death. New treatments cannot be checked directly on real patients because of the risks this could imply. For this reason several simulators have been published. These simulators use to be implemented as complex mathematical models and they are oriented to concrete types of shocks or focused on fluid resuscitation. Here, we present a new simulator which is based on decision tables. It is able to simulate the evolution of seven different sorts of shocks when treated with fluid resuscitation and vasoactive agents.
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Clinical actions of the sort infusion are considered continuous. The rest are discrete.
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The concept long term must be understood in the context of an ICU (few hours).
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Real, F., Riaño, D., Alonso, J.R. (2015). A Patient Simulation Model Based on Decision Tables for Emergency Shocks. In: Riaño, D., Lenz, R., Miksch, S., Peleg, M., Reichert, M., ten Teije, A. (eds) Knowledge Representation for Health Care. AIME 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9485. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26585-8_2
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