Regional anesthesia and pain medicine
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Reg Anesth Pain Med · Nov 2023
ReviewHow large language models can augment perioperative medicine: a daring discourse.
Interest in natural language processing, specifically large language models, for clinical applications has exploded in a matter of several months since the introduction of ChatGPT. Large language models are powerful and impressive. ⋯ We review three potential major areas in which it may be used to benefit perioperative medicine: (1) clinical decision support and surveillance tools, (2) improved aggregation and analysis of research data related to large retrospective studies and application in predictive modeling, and (3) optimized documentation for quality measurement, monitoring and billing compliance. These large language models are here to stay and, as perioperative providers, we can either adapt to this technology or be curtailed by those who learn to use it well.