Insights in Pediatric Cardiology

Cardiovascular health maps for health positioning and optimize interventions

Several studies attempted to predict patient’s deterioration or progress using a combined score. However, since the combined score is just numeric value that combines many parameters, it does not provide the multidimensional health status or where to go from here, how to evaluate alternative treatments, etc. Medicine in general including cardiology, does not have one acceptable and explicit framework that defines the position of a patient in the cardiovascular health space, her/his target zone and paths (interventions) from the current position to the target. This makes it difficult to decide about the costs/benefits of each alternative treatment and even more to quantify effectiveness and visualize it in a way that both the doctor and the patient can understand it. According to this approach we use the BP pulse shape as indication to the cardiovascular status of the patient and create a continuous space spanned by its N dimensional features.

Ehud Baron