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ReviewAnesthesiology2019

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Anesthesiology.

Christopher W Connor

2 registry-linked trialsAbstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Anesthesiology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 86 papers.

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86citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT07021235 completednot on this mapstarted 2025, after this paper: background citation

Pilot Observational Cohort Study to Validate the Aiinane Preoperative and Preanesthesia Risk Assessment Tool in Real-world Conditions: Proof of Concept.

Typeobservational_patient_registrySponsorAncor SerranoRan2025 to 2025Enrolled30ConditionsBreast Neoplasms, Surgery Scheduled, Surgery Related Complications Rate, Preanesthetic Medication
NCT07253012 recruitingnot on this mapstarted 2026, after this paper: background citation

AI-assisted Analgesia Copilot System for Proper Management of Nociception

Typeobservational_patient_registrySponsorPontificia Universidad Catolica de ChileRan2026 to 2027Enrolled150ConditionsNociception, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Target Controlled Infusion (TCI), Remifentanil ConsumptionArmsHemodynamic monitor, BIS, TOF, ANI, anesthesia machine and infusion pumps, SEASCAPE
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

86 citing papers in PubMed.

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  11. Forecasting intraoperative hypotension during hepatobiliary surgery.Journal of clinical monitoring and computing · 2025
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  12. Reshaping Anesthesia with Artificial Intelligence: From Concept to Reality.Anesthesia and critical care (Houston, Tex.) · 2025
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  15. Artificial intelligence in anesthesiology: a bibliometric analysis.Perioperative medicine (London, England) · 2024
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26 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Christopher W ConnorFrom the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital; and the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts.

Funding

Pan-neuronal functional imaging and anesthesiaR01GM121457 · NIGMS · BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUS · PI CONNOR, CHRISTOPHER W · 2017 to 2021
$1.7M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM121457
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Commercial applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning have made remarkable progress recently, particularly in areas such as image recognition, natural speech processing, language translation, textual analysis, and self-learning. Progress had historically languished in these areas, such that these skills had come to seem ineffably bound to intelligence. However, these commercial advances have performed best at single-task applications in which imperfect outputs and occasional frank errors can be tolerated.The practice of anesthesiology is different. It embodies a requirement for high reliability, and a pressured cycle of interpretation, physical action, and response rather than any single cognitive act. This review covers the basics of what is meant by artificial intelligence and machine learning for the practicing anesthesiologist, describing how decision-making behaviors can emerge from simple equations. Relevant clinical questions are introduced to illustrate how machine learning might help solve them-perhaps bringing anesthesiology into an era of machine-assisted discovery.

Indexed as

AlgorithmsAnesthesiologyArtificial IntelligenceHumansMachine Learning

Identifiers

PMID30973516
PMCPMC6778496

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