Investigating the effect of respiratory indices to predict mortality and the status of trauma patients using artificial neural networks

Introduction Knowing the final status of trauma patients and clearly understanding their condition are always significant due to the complexity of injuries and the high dependence of the patient’s condition on various factors. That is why it allows doctors to be able to provide required facilities in a broader perspective and perform appropriate action. In addition, it can avoid wasting time and energy and then increasing patient mortality. While, there are several ways to measure and predict the final status of patients but all of them have some defects. Therefore, it is very important for the significance of the system design with high accuracy and reliability to be able to help physicians investigate the final status of trauma patients. Method In this study, a method, a sub-branch of data science and artificial intelligence, is presented and studied based on artificial neural networks to estimate the final status of trauma patients and predict their survival and death probabilities during the treatment and care process. In the proposed method, the final status of patients is predicted using 13 respiratory indices. This method is run in Matlab and its efficiency is studied. Results Research subjects include 3073 patients, 494 females and 2579 males, from Shahid Rajaei Medical Center in Shiraz. In general, according to the results from testing the method, it has been able to accurately predict the mortality of patients based on respiratory indices. The proposed structure has been able to predict patients’ survival and death probabilities with an accuracy of %73.75 and %99.71 respectively. Therefore, we can conclude that the presented and examined method can make a significant relevance between calculated respiratory indices and final status of patients. Discussion and Conclusion Due to the present study and the obtained results and investigating the mortality relevance with the other 13 respiratory indices using artificial intelligence-based methods, it can be stated that these indicators are good criteria for predicting mortality.