METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PREDICTING WORK OF BREATHING

摘要

A method for estimating effort of breathing of a patient, comprises:
receiving respiratory parameters of the patient;
calculating, with a processor, respiratory data from the respiratory parameters;
inputting the respiratory data into a mathematical model created using clinical data; and
providing at least one output variable from the mathematical model corresponding to effort of breathing;
wherein the mathematical model is trained to provide said at least one output variable, wherein the training of the mathematical model comprises use of esophageal pressure from a test population of patients as clinical data input to the mathematical model.