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HeRO™ Research Begins in Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at the University of Virginia October 1, 2004 - Charlottesville, VA. Medical Predictive Science Corporation has announced that they have begun using their Heart Rate Observation (HeRO™) system to collect research data in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at the University of Virginia (UVA) hospital. The HeRO™ system was developed to analyze patterns in heart rate variability of newborn infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) to detect abnormalities such as reduced baseline variability and the presence of transient decelerations. Once per hour, it produces a score for each patient to quantify the degree of abnormality. The recent PICU installation represents a first attempt to use the HeRO™ system to monitor patients outside the NICU. "We are excited to determine whether the HeRO™ score in the PICU will correlate with significant clinical events, as has been the case with the NICU population," said Will King, HeRO™ Project Manager for MPSC. The UVA PICU contains 11 beds, and provides care for newborns, children, and adolescents. # # # Medical Predictive Science Corporation (http://www.mpsc.biz) is engaged in the development of computational diagnostic and bio-informatic technologies for the healthcare industry. MPSC is committed to saving lives and reducing healthcare expenditures through the development of effective clinical diagnostic and decision support tools. These products use computational diagnostic methods to make the early diagnosis of clinical illness through continuous, non-invasive patient monitoring, and to provide diagnostic information as well as decision support to the physician. HeRO is a trademark of Medical Predictive Science Corporation.


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