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COVID Severity Score: New software to identify COVID-19 patients requiring ventilator
The software COVID Severity Score has been developed to identify patients who require ventilator support and to detect emergency and ICU needs early.
Updated : Jun 19, 2021, 07:09 PM IST | Edited by : Shampa Sen
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Even as the danger of a third wave lurks over us, software to identify COVID-19 patients who may require a ventilator was released by the Union health ministry on Saturday. AIIMS Director Dr Randeep Guleria has already stated that the third wave is 'inevitable' and it could hit the country in the next six to eight weeks.
The new software named 'COVID Severity Score' has been developed to identify patients who require ventilator support as well as to detect emergency and intensive care unit needs early. The software will calculate a COVID Severity Score based on an algorithm.
"Sudden ICU and other emergency requirements during the pandemic have been a challenge for hospitals to manage. Timely information about such situations would help manage the health crisis better," the government said in a statement.
The technology has been developed by the Foundation For Innovations In Health, Kolkata with support from the Science for Equity, Empowerment, and Development (SEED) division of the Department of Science & Technology, GoI in collaboration with IIT Guwahati.
How does it work?
The software named 'COVID Severity Score' will calculate a COVID Severity Score based on an algorithm.
The software will help to identify patients who require ventilator support as well as to detect an emergency and intensive care unit needs early.
The software works on an algorithm that measures symptoms, signs, vital parameters, test reports and comorbidities of the COVID positive patient and scores each against a pre-set dynamic algorithm thus allocating a COVID Severity Score (CSS).
While the software will identify patients who require serious intervention in advance, it will also identify those unlikely to require critical care support, and thus freeing more beds, the ministry said.
Currently, the software is being used by three community COVID care centres at Kolkata and suburbs including a 100-bed government-mandated COVID care centre at Bengal's Barrackpore.
