The Role of AI in Surgery (by Dr. Kevin Stone in Huffington Post)
Artificial intelligence is everywhere. (Makes you wonder why so many politicians say and do dumb things…)
Alexa, Siri, and Cortana can not only understand your music preferences and other wishes, they can also listen to questions asked in the work environment. For me, that means the operating room—and for you, the patient, it means that your surgeon is not alone. Here’s why it’s so useful.
I encounter little surprises in every surgical procedure. Every person is different, and each tissue has its own characteristics—from the obvious tear patterns to the hidden degeneration within the tissue’s collagen structure.
The source of these differences may be in the patients’ sports habits. Are they a pro athlete or an out-of-shape desk jockey? How much are they going to push the limits of a repair? Will they follow the post-operative rehabilitation program? Have they been repaired before and re-injured? The tissue differences can be obvious muscle sizes, the shape of the bones, the angle of the joints, the blood supply to the torn fragments, and/or the unique locations of the ligament insertions.
To my mind, there are no “r...
