Publications by authors named "R Kawati"
Article Synopsis
- Artificial neural networks (ANNs) can learn and are evaluated in this study for their ability to calculate minute volume changes during spontaneous breathing, specifically in an animal model of metabolic acidosis.
- The study involved ten anesthetized pigs that were subjected to varying pH levels, with data collected on several physiological parameters to train the ANN.
- The trained ANN showed high accuracy in estimating minute volume changes, suggesting they could play a significant role in enhancing closed-loop artificial ventilator systems in the future.
Background: Smoking has been associated with a higher risk of contracting pneumonia, but contradictory results have shown that smoking may or may not decrease the risk of dying in pneumonia. The aim of this study is to investigate how smoking is associated with contracting any infection and pneumonia and death.
Method And Findings: Participants were drawn from the population-based Cohort of Swedish Men and the Swedish Mammography Cohort, which are representative of the Swedish population.
Background: Sepsis is a condition where the immune response to infection becomes dysregulated and life-threatening. It is not known whether lifestyle factors influence the risk of sepsis. The aim of the present study is to investigate the association between physical activity and the risk of acquiring and dying in infection or sepsis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCOVID-19 is associated with prolonged intensive care unit (ICU) stay and considerable mortality. The onset of persistent critical illness, defined as when prior illness predicts death better than acute physiological derangement, has not been studied in COVID-19. This national cohort study based on the Swedish Intensive Care Registry (SIR) included all patients admitted to a Swedish ICU due to COVID-19 from 6 March 2020 to 9 November 2021.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has led to an unprecedented strain on the ICU resources. It is not known how the ICU resources employed in treating COVID-19 patients are related to inpatient characteristics, use of organ support or mortality.
Objectives: To investigate how the use of ICU resources relate to use of organ support and mortality in COVID-19 patients.