“From artificial intelligence to the use of smart watches, from telemedicine to wearable devices. Our intensive therapies are increasingly hi-tech. New technologies in anesthesia, resuscitation, intensive care, emergency, urgency, pain therapy and hyperbaric they help us in many ways. They certainly allow us to monitor patients more closely and provide better treatment after hospitalization.” This was stated to Adnkronos Salute by Elena Bignami, full professor of Anesthesiology and Intensive and Pain Therapy at the Department of Medicine and Surgery of the University of Parma and president-elect of Siaarti for the three-year period 2025-2, on the occasion of the 78th national congress of Italian society of anaesthesia, resuscitation, intensive care and pain therapy, underway in Naples.
“Not only artificial intelligence, already known to us in Radiology for diagnostic imaging – explains Bignami – a great help comes from smart watches which can be an alert. Every day in anesthesia, for example, artificial intelligence techniques they help us in the organizational phase of scheduling the operating theatres, avoiding having problems for example by postponing operations, or not being adequate in the timing. Furthermore, they allow us to stratify the risk of our patient, as in intensive care, and always proceed more towards personalized medicine. We identify a patient with a specific diagnosis early and are able to propose the right treatment for that patient at that moment.”
“Another very interesting thing in the perioperative phase”, the period that goes from the patient’s entry into the operating room until his transfer to the recovery room, “is the possibility of combining artificial intelligence, for example, with wearable devices that are a new technology. And therefore this allows us to separate that difficult combination between logistics and function. Not all intensive care patients are so serious but at the same time not all patients are so calm that they cannot have monitoring wearable devices, whose results are recorded with artificial intelligence, allow us to closely monitor. Another very important application is telemedicine which, together with AI, is fundamental in pain therapy.”
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