Artificial Intelligence: Diagnostics and Decision-Making in Anaesthesia: A review of the first 65 years

Anaesthesia monitoring has changed since the 1950s, it leapt forward in the 1970s and 80s and it then appears to have stagnated for 30 years, there has been no real clinical application. This has to change. Mercy Warren in Certain Fathoms in the Earth wanted her boss’s forehead tattooed with the words “You can’t live on the ideas of the past”. As you will appreciate, it would have to be written in mirror writing. We have to overcome all the angst about a computer takeover and potential litigation. If we are coping with the idea of driverless cars to improve road safety then we should be able to cope with intelligent anaesthesia monitoring by the use of computers.