After major surgery it’s not unusual for patients in intensive care units to develop complications. If clinical staff could identify at-risk patients early on, it would allow them to react more promptly and save lives. To this end, Prof. Alexander Meyer, physician and computer scientist at the German Heart Center Berlin (DHZB), has developed an algorithm that collates data from various monitoring instruments in modern intensive care units and evaluates them intelligently to enable complications to be recognized before they become critical.
The software has been trained with the help of anonymized data from more than 50,000 patients and is being tested in the intensive care units of the DHZB during normal operation since April 2018.
In July 2021, the start-up was certified as a medical device manufacturer in the EU and also received approval for its first product – ‘x-c-bleeding’ – for the prediction of postoperative bleeding. A second product ‘x-c-renal-injury’ for acute renal failure is to follow. There are many more conceivable applications.
x-Cardiac is a spin-off from the Charité and the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), and has been supported by Ascenion, the BIH Digital Health Accelerator and the DHZB, among others.
(Annual Report 2020)
