Potential Applications of ChatGPT in Anesthesia Practice
Keywords:
anesthesia practice, AI technology, ChatGPT, continuous medical education, healthcare medicineAbstract
This article explores the transformative potential of integrating ChatGPT, an AI-powered language model, into anesthesia practice. Anesthesia practitioners grapple with the complexities of ensuring patient safety, making real-time decisions, and managing extensive medical data. ChatGPT offers a multifaceted solution by enhancing preoperative assessments, providing real-time decision support during surgery, and automating postoperative monitoring. However, the article emphasizes the importance of ethical considerations, transparency with patients, and the indispensable role of human expertise. It underscores ChatGPT’s role as a supplementary resource rather than a replacement for medical professionals. Moreover, the article discusses the future prospects of ChatGPT, including its potential for personalized anesthesia plans, integration with advanced monitoring devices, and predictive capabilities.
References
American Society of Anesthesiologists. Role of anesthesiologist. [updated 2023; cited 2023 Oct 22]. Available from: https://www.asahq.org/madeforthismoment/anesthesia-101/role-of-physician-anesthesiologist/
Konstantinos I. Roumeliotis, Nikolaos D. Tselikas. ChatGPT and open-ai models: a preliminary review. [updated 2023 May 26; cited 2023 Oct 22]. Available from: https://www.mdpi.com/19995903/15/6/192#B12- futureinternet-15-00192
Vikram M. How does chatGPT work: from pretraining to RLHF [Blog]. [updated 2023 Jun 28; cited 2023 Oct 24]. Available from: https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2023/05/how-does-chatgpt-work-from-pretraining-to-rlhf/
Crabtree M. What is chatGPT? a chat with chatGPT on the method behind the bot [Blog]. [updated 2023 May; cited 2023 Oct 24]. Available from: https://www.datacamp.com/blog/a-chat-with-chatgpt-on-the-method-behind-the-bot
OpenAI. GPT-4 is openAI’s most advanced system, producing safer and more useful responses. [updated 2023; cited 2023 Oct 25]. Available from: https://openai.com/gpt-4
Aldridge MJ, Penders R. Artificial intelligence and anaesthesia examinations: exploring chatGPT as a prelude to the future. Br J Anaesth. 2023;131:e36-7.
Lim DYZ, Ke YK, Sng GGR, Tung JYM, Chai JX, Abdullah HR. Large language models in anaesthesiology: use of chatGPT for American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status classification. Br J Anaesth. 2023;131:e73-5.
King MR. The future of AI in medicine: a perspective from a chatbot. Ann Biomed Eng. 2023;51:291-5.
Wallace C. 14 ways new AI bot chatGPT could be used in healthcare. [updated 2023 Mar; cited 2023 Oct 31]. Available from: https://www.beckersasc.com/asc-news/14-ways-new-ai-bot-chatgpt-could-be-used-in-healthcare.html
Odom-Forren J. The role of chatGPT in perianesthesia nursing. J Perianesth Nurs. 2023;38:176-7.
Cascella M, Montomoli J, Bellini B, et al. Writing the paper “unveiling artificial intelligence: an insight into ethics and applications in anesthesia” implementing the large language model chatGPT: a qualitative study. J Med Artif Intell. 2023;6.
Sallam M. ChatGPT utility in healthcare education, research, and practice: systematic review on the promising perspectives and valid concerns. Healthcare. 2023;11:887.
Garg RK, Urs VL, Agarwal AA, Chaudhary SK, Paliwal V, Kar SK. Exploring the role of chatGPT in patient care (diagnosis and treatment) and medical research: a systematic review. Health Promot Perspect. 2023;13:183-91.
Cascella M, Montomoli J, Bellini V, Bignami E. Evaluating the feasibility of chatGPT in healthcare: an analysis of multiple clinical and research scenarios. J Med Syst. 2023;47:33.
Asch DA. An interview with chatGPT about health care. NEJM Catalyst. 2023.
Dave T, Athaluri SA, Singh S. ChatGPT in medicine: an overview of its applications, advantages, limitations, future prospects, and ethical considerations. Front Artif Intell. 2023;6:1169595.
Open AI. Introducing ChatGPT [Blog]. cited 2023 Oct 27. Available from: https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt
Grigio TR, Timmerman H, Wolff AP. ChatGPT in anaesthesia research: risk of fabrication in literature searches. Br J Anaesth. 2023;131:e29-30.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Copyright
Copyright of all articles published in the Thai Journal of Anesthesiology is held by the Thai Journal of Anesthesiology, the Royal College of Anesthesiologists of Thailand. Submission of a manuscript constitutes the authors' agreement that, upon acceptance for publication, copyright of the work is transferred to the Journal. The content and any opinions expressed in published articles are the sole responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the editorial board or the Royal College of Anesthesiologists of Thailand.
Licensing
All articles are published open access under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Under this license, anyone may copy and redistribute published articles in any medium or format for non-commercial purposes, provided that appropriate credit is given to the authors and to the Thai Journal of Anesthesiology as the original source of publication, a link to the license is included, and the material is not modified in any way. Requests for commercial use or for adaptation of published material should be directed to the editorial office.
Authors' Rights
Although copyright is held by the Journal, authors retain the right to reuse their own published material in their future scholarly works, theses and dissertations, teaching, and academic presentations, and to deposit the final published version (PDF) in institutional or subject repositories or on personal and institutional websites, without embargo, provided that the Thai Journal of Anesthesiology is clearly acknowledged as the original place of publication.
