Can we personalise treatment in severe infection using the blood pressure waveform?

The first webinar of 2025 organised by the new VPHi Young Scientists Committee will take place on Wednesday 5 March 2025 at 10:30 am CET and it will feature VPHi Best Student Award winner Finn Catling from Imperial College London, presenting his work stemming from the question "Can we personalise treatment in severe infection using the blood pressure waveform?". The webinar is free and it will moderatedby Stephen Creamer from Auckland Bioengineering Institute.

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Abstract:

Circulatory failure caused by severe infection — known as septic shock — is common and carries a high mortality risk. Patients with septic shock are heterogeneous, with varying cardiovascular changes that require different treatments. However, recognising this cardiovascular variation at the bedside is challenging. We present a physiologically-grounded, machine-learning-enabled system for arterial pressure waveform analysis, which aims to facilitate personalised treatment in septic shock.

Bio:

Finn Catling is an academic Intensive Care doctor and a Wellcome Trust Clinical PhD Fellow at Imperial College London, an NHS England Clinical Entrepreneurship Fellow and a Fellow of the British Computer Society. His research centres on personalised treatment of critical illness, merging methods from physiological modelling, machine learning and Bayesian statistics. He is particularly interested in decision support systems, in disease heterogeneity, and in the role of uncertainty in clinical decision-making. Please see https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/f.catling for more information.

This webinar is organised within the VPHi Keynote Webinar series, a quarterly event organized by the VPHi Young Scientists Committee that provides a forum for access to senior community members and their expert competence for chiefly young scientists, but also to the VPH community as a whole.

With the series, VPHi wishes to:

• Offer added value to prospective young scientists through core content
• Create visibility of VPH knowledge dissemination for external stakeholders
• Highlight excellence within the VPHi, additionally providing student members with a label of quality
• Promote scientific interaction between junior and senior community members and across VPHi disciplines

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