Artificial Intelligence and Automatic Assist Anesthesia

Abstract

In 2016, there were many news reports concerning artificial intelligence learning by itself. For example, AlphaGo（Google DeepMind）won a Go match against a professional high-level player, and an automatic driving bus ran for a test on public road. In the area of anesthesiology, automated anesthesia is associated with artificial intelligence. There are currently a number of automated systems which maintain drug concentrations of anesthetics. Another automated anesthesia system, which administers an anesthetic drug to maintain these pharmacodynamic effects, requires appropriate electroencephalographic monitoring and continuous measurement of the actual drug concentration. Computer-assisted anesthetic management can compensate for shortcomings of anesthesiologists and improve medical quality in daily practice.