Posted 1/28/2024, 1:00:47 PM
UC San Diego Develops AI to Predict Sepsis, Reduce Mortality Rates
- Sepsis is a deadly reaction to infection that kills over 350,000 Americans per year; early detection is key to saving lives
- UC San Diego Health developed an AI system called COMPOSER to predict sepsis cases in emergency rooms
- In a study, COMPOSER was associated with a 1.9 percentage point drop in mortality rate
- More work is needed to refine COMPOSER to avoid false alarms and uncertainty
- UCSD is expanding COMPOSER to monitor admitted patients and integrating it into more hospitals