	US 12,249,427 B2
	Prediction of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP)
Ali Akbar Ahmad Samadani, Cambridge, MA (US); Taiyao Wang, Cambridge, MA (US); and Cornelis van Zon, Cambridge, MA (US)
Assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V., Eindhoven (NL)
Filed by KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven (NL)
Filed on Aug. 2, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/879,240.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/254,283, filed on Oct. 11, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0110196 A1, Apr. 13, 2023
Int. Cl. G16H 50/30 (2018.01)

CPC G16H 50/30 (2018.01)

16 Claims

15. A ventilator, comprising:

a non-transitory storage medium having processor-executable code comprising:

code that accesses data of a patient comprising one or more features;

code that determines a time parameter associated with mechanical ventilation of the patient;

code that uses the time parameter to activate one of an early VAP model and a late VAP model to provide an activated model; and

code that provides a prediction that VAP will occur based on the activated model operating on the one or more features of the patient data.