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Review
. 2022;1(1):9.
doi: 10.1007/s44250-022-00014-6. Epub 2022 Dec 6.

Artificial intelligence in surgery: the emergency surgeon's perspective (the ARIES project)

Belinda De Simone  1 , Elie Chouillard  1 , Andrew A Gumbs  1 , Tyler J Loftus  2 , Haytham Kaafarani  3 , Fausto Catena  4
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Artificial intelligence in surgery: the emergency surgeon's perspective (the ARIES project)

Belinda De Simone et al. Discov Health Syst. 2022.

Abstract

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been developed and implemented in healthcare with the valuable potential to reduce health, social, and economic inequities, help actualize universal health coverage, and improve health outcomes on a global scale. The application of AI in emergency surgery settings could improve clinical practice and operating rooms management by promoting consistent, high-quality decision making while preserving the importance of bedside assessment and human intuition as well as respect for human rights and equitable surgical care, but ethical and legal issues are slowing down surgeons' enthusiasm. Emergency surgeons are aware that prioritizing education, increasing the availability of high AI technologies for emergency and trauma surgery, and funding to support research projects that use AI to provide decision support in the operating room are crucial to create an emergency "intelligent" surgery.

Keywords: ARIES project; Artificial Intelligence; Autonomous action; Decision-making; Digital vision; Emergency surgery; Machine learning; Robotic surgery.

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Competing interestsThe authors declare no competing interests.

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The Gartner Hype Cycle for Artificial Intelligence tools in surgery
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Minimally Invasive Surgery and Emergency Surgery, from the Artificial Intelligence in Emergency and trauma Surgery (ARIES) survey results
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Robotic surgery and emergency surgery, from Artificial Intelligence in Emergency and trauma Surgery (ARIES) survey results
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