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Evidence from the Royal College of Anaesthetists to the inquiry: Workforce: recruitment, training and retention in health and social care
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Recently, 78.4% of ChatGPT users reported they would use it for self-diagnosis. This article explores who is responsible should poor advice from AI, lead to patient harm.
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) describes technology that can create new content, including text, images and audio, based on patterns and structures learnt from existing data. Large language models (LLM) are types of generative AI models that are trained on vast amounts of online data and employ natural language processing, designed to mimic human language and communication.
Since the release of ChatGPT 3.5 by OpenAI in November 2022, there has been a significant rise in interest in and development of LLM chatbot technology, which has become increasingly sophisticated. Now other companies, such as Google, have developed LLM AI technology integrated into search engines via plug-ins.
ChatGPT, and other AI chatbots, have not been designed for (or licensed to) provide medical information and advice. Despite ChatGPT usage policies dictating that medical and health advice without review by a qualified professional may significantly impair safety and wellbeing, the policy is not prohibitory. Therefore there’s increasing concern regarding the unregulated ‘off licence’ use by members of the public.
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Emergency Front of Neck Airway Registry
Chapter 5: Guidelines for the Provision of Emergency Anaesthesia Services 2025
To reduce the harm associated with variable rate intravenous insulin infusions, periods of starvation should be kept to a minimum. This may involve prioritisation of patients with diabetes for investigations and for theatre.
This article is written by TRIPOM and summarises recent important papers and articles on perioperative medicine from across different medical publications.
- Dr Stuart Connal, Specialty Registrar in Anaesthesia, North Central London Deanery
Perioperative Journal Watch is written by TRIPOM (trainees with an interest in perioperative medicine – tripom.org) and is a brief distillation of recent important papers and articles on perioperative medicine from across the spectrum of medical publications.
Lawrence Mudford, CPOC Patient Representative, updates on how they are improving the patient experience and quality of care.
In my role as a patient representative, I am committed to represent the patient voice to ensure it is at the centre of everything we do.
For those who may not know, CPOC is a cross-specialty initiative made up of 11 partners dedicated to the advancement and development of perioperative care. Perioperative care means the whole patient journey from the GP’s, to when a patient returns home after surgery. Our vision is to improve the health of people of all ages, at all stages of their surgical journey, by promoting the highest standards of perioperative care.
Improving perioperative care will make a difference to a lot of things important to patients, including getting fitter before surgery, better pain management (getting mobile quicker), recovery (getting out of hospital faster), reducing anxiety felt, and putting the patient at the centre of all decisions about treatment.