How AI is reshaping the anesthesia workforce
“Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.”
– H. G. Wells, 1945
Many anesthesia professionals will likely recall the rise and fall of the Sedasys platform. Touted as a revolutionary advancement that would one day put anesthesiologists and nurse anesthetists “out of work,” the Sedasys computerized propofol-infusion platform predictably generated a fierce response from anesthesia professional societies who deemed it dangerous, off-label, and fraught with medicolegal liability. Sedasys …