A Bayesian hierarchical model for improving exercise rehabilitation in mechanically ventilated ICU patients

06/28/2022
by   Luke Hardcastle, et al.
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Patients who are mechanically ventilated in the intensive care unit (ICU) participate in exercise as a component of their rehabilitation to ameliorate the long-term impact of critical illness on their physical function. The effective implementation of these programmes is hindered, however, by the lack of a scientific method for quantifying an individual patient's exercise intensity level in real time, which results in a broad one-size-fits-all approach to rehabilitation and sub-optimal patient outcomes. In this work we have developed a Bayesian hierarchical model with temporally correlated latent Gaussian processes to predict V̇O_2, a physiological measure of exercise intensity, using readily available physiological data. Inference was performed using Integrated Nested Laplace Approximation. For practical use by clinicians V̇O_2 was classified into exercise intensity categories. Internal validation using leave-one-patient-out cross-validation was conducted based on these classifications, and the role of probabilistic statements describing the classification uncertainty was investigated.

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