Why the study?
AI has potential to improve emergency surgery practice and operating room management, but ethical and legal issues are slowing adoption.
AI has the potential to improve emergency surgery outcomes, but requires prioritization of education, funding, and resolution of ethical and legal concerns.
AI deployment in emergency surgery should not yet change practice; leaves open the need for ethical frameworks and targeted validation studies.
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.
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