Guidance Recipients
Match would-be startups with local industry, academia, and related institutionsSystem for Predicting the Success Rate of Weaning Critically Ill Patients from Mechanical Ventilation
Lo Yu-lun, Chang Gung University
Year 2016Year
Period:2016-11-01 to 2017-12-01
Overview
- Every day clinical physicians are called upon to assess the feasibility of weaning critically ill patients from mechanical ventilation in order to reduce the risk of lung complications and restore spontaneous breathing. Nevertheless, the success rate of weaning from mechanical ventilation generally comes in short of 65%.
- Combined, acquisition of cross-platform physiological signals and application of innovative algorithms make available a tool for clinical physicians to assess the success rate of spontaneous breathing for patients. In turn, the success rate of weaning from mechanical ventilation can be increased to 85%.
- The indirect increase thus attained in patients’ survival rate proves effective in bringing down the hefty costs imposed on hospitals or insurers in caring for the critically ill.
Development Process
Over the course of this project under the Applied Research Incubation Program, the team completed subject recruitment for clinical research, compared the efficacies between the algorithms provided by partner institutions, and analyzed competitors’ core patents and the possibility of patent infringement. Patent strategy and patents to be applied for were thus determined. After Advanced Biomedical Technology Inc. was established on April 26, 2017, the team continued to offer assistance in product commercialization.
