果冻传媒

Approximately one out of five patients undergoing surgery will develop a major postoperative complication, which may significantly affect functional recovery and long-term survival. Poor fluid management, hemodynamic instability, and cardiac dysfunction are recognized as the leading causes of perioperative complications and poor outcomes. As such, there is an increasing clinical awareness that adequate hemodynamic monitoring and timely appropriate therapy can improve outcome and reduce costs. However, current solutions have several drawbacks in terms of use in clinical practice and reliability, limiting their implementation into routine clinical practice. Therefore, there is a strong clinical need for a new non-invasive hemodynamic monitoring approach, which is sensitive to beat-to-beat cardiac output and flow dynamics without requiring specific expertise or effort from the caretakers nor adding burden to the patient. Given the above, in the proposed project, we aim to develop a new, body-worn ultrasound sensing platform and smart, data-driven algorithms, for unobtrusive and reliable hemodynamic monitoring of peri-operative and critically-ill patients.