MIT Technology Review June 7, 2024
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This AI-powered “black box” could make surgery safer
The operating room has long been defined by its hush-hush nature because surgeons are notoriously bad at acknowledging their own mistakes.
These mistakes kill some 22,000 Americans each year. Many of the errors happen on the operating table, from leaving surgical sponges inside patients’ bodies to performing the wrong procedure altogether.
Now, Teodor Grantcharov, a surgeon and professor of surgery at Stanford, believes he’s created the technology to create and analyze recordings of operations to help improve safety...
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