Artificial Intelligence in Perioperative Medication-Related Clinical Decision Support

Medication errors in the operating room (OR) are common and have considerable potential for harm. While not yet widely used in the OR, clinical decision support (CDS) has been shown to prevent medication errors outside of the OR and has the potential to prevent 95% of perioperative medication errors. While artificial intelligence (AI) can be introduced into CDS to improve data parsing, risk stratification, and patient monitoring, this would require close human oversight, regulatory approval, and widespread use of perioperative CDS to obtain sufficient data to train effective AI models.