When we look back on this time, how will we view the state of anesthesia and medicine? Specifically, will we be referring to the time before artificial intelligence (AI) as the “Golden Years?” Or will we be wondering how we ever got along without it? Other articles in the literature and in this issue of the ASA Monitor will provide deeper explanations of the technological underpinnings of some of these advances. In this article, I will walk readers through some basic AI ideas and applications as they apply to perioperative medicine. This is an introduction to exciting things to come – some just around the corner and some that are already here.
A few concepts are needed to understand how the massive warehouses of different types of information called “big data” are used. When we seek to classify a relationship, diagnosis, or best course of action, and we possess a...
