High-risk Cardiac Patients

The WILLEM Registry is a large-scale, single-group, observational, registry study to collect continuous clinical evidence of Willem in real-world settings. Cardiovascular diseases are a major problem for public health and healthcare systems. Electrocardiograms (ECGs) are simple tests which increase diagnostic performance and early detection of cardiovascular diseases. However, its interpretation is complex, time consuming for cardiology experts, and entails high costs for healthcare systems. Willem allows AI-based automatic interpretation and its performance has been examined in previous clinical trials, but additional clinical evidence is needed for its integration in real-world clinical settings. This study will collect clinical evidence of Willem performance to detect cardiac abnormalities in ECGs from high-risk cardiac patients admitted to cardiovascular units.

This study investigates if single lung ventilation on cardiopulmonary bypass can mitigate postoperative lung water accumulation determined by lung ultrasound in the ventilated lung as compared to the non-ventilated lung in patients at high-risk for developing severe pulmonary complications after cardiac surgery.