The Sound of Silence
Predictive medicine: detecting sepsis and deterioration before the Code Blue; Florence Nightingale as the "Lady of Data".
The chapter revisits Florence Nightingale not only as a pioneer of nursing, but as one of the first to use statistical data to save lives: the "Lady of Data" before the digital era. From her, the authors introduce the promise of predictive medicine: algorithms able to identify early signs of sepsis or clinical deterioration hours before a Code Blue, in the silence of subtle changes in vital signs that the human eye would hardly catch in time. It is AI as an early-warning system, not as a substitute for clinical judgment.