AI applications in pediatric surgery and clinical transformation with Dr. Todd Ponsky

Knowledge transfer requires both a platform people will use and a method to filter what information is important

A communication network for knowledge transfer must work with different healthcare professional lifestyles and be a trusted network

When there is too much information from too many people creating noise, knowledge transfer becomes difficult

Crowdsourcing and AI can help determine what information is important in knowledge transfer

The COVID-19 crisis has exaggerated pre-existing problems with too many communication channels and uncertainty about which to follow

Proning was already known as a technique, but its earlier use in COVID-19 is new information that cannot wait six months to disseminate

Pilots always have a co-pilot, but surgeons are often alone in community settings performing operations in anatomical spaces where they are not comfortable

Surgical telementoring allows an expert surgeon to beam into the operating room and guide another surgeon using telestration and pointing to make operations safer

Surgical telementoring is intended for trained surgeons seeking expert interaction, not for novices being told what to do

Measurements have shown that surgical telementoring is successful and needs to take place

Medical-legal issues could be barriers to surgical telementoring implementation

The peer review method for surgical telementoring should be real-time and crowdsourced rather than using selected individual peer reviewers

Senior surgeons who may not be able to operate anymore still have valuable skill sets and knowledge for telementoring

Having two surgeons watching and telestrating together elevates the quality of surgical telementoring

AI image recognition could be applied live during surgery to implement CT scan data and provide warnings such as proximity to the hepatic artery