Towards Artificial Intelligence as a Decision Support Tool to Combat AMR in the ICU

The possibilities of artificial intelligence (AI), and more specifically, machine learning (ML), are being researched across almost all domains of medicine, and the field of intensive care medicine is certainly no exception. Several factors contribute to the intensive care unit (ICU) being one of the focal points of AI/ML research. Intensive care was one of the earliest adaptors of the electronic health record (EHR) (Varun and Marik 2002), making data readily available. A vast amount of diverse data is generated for an individual patient during clinical care, resulting in 6.000–30.000 routinely collected healthcare data points per ICU patient per day. As this data is mostly structured and annotated, it is very suitable for training ML models.