Journal Review in Artificial Intelligence: Applications of AI in Surgery

Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

Science, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Education

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🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to our new series – the AI Journal Club! In this series, we’ll cover some interesting studies and evidence-based applications of artificial intelligence in surgery in a case-based format. Surely AI can find a DVT by now … or can it? Stay tuned and find out!

Hosts:
- Ayman Ali, MD
Ayman Ali is a Behind the Knife fellow and general surgery PGY-3 at Duke Hospital in his academic development time where he focuses on data science, artificial intelligence, and surgery.

- Ruchi Thanawala, MD: @Ruchi_TJ
Ruchi Thanawala is an Assistant Professor of Informatics and Thoracic Surgery at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) and founder of Firefly, an AI-driven platform that is built for competency-based medical education. In addition, she directs the Surgical Data and Decision Sciences Lab for the Department of Surgery at OHSU.

- Marisa Sewell, MD: @MarisaSewell
Marisa Sewell is a general surgery PGY-4 at Oregon Health and Science University.

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0:00.0	Behind the Knife, the Surgery Podcast, relevant introducing our new AI Journal Club series, where we discuss the clinical case and AI-related papers and tools that fit into the patient's care.
0:33.4	AI and surgery is still very much in its infancy, and there are many papers better being
0:37.5	published almost daily.
0:39.6	Today, I'm joined by some co-hosts from Oregon Health and Science University.
0:44.2	From faculty, we have Dr. Rucci, who's a thoracic surgeon at OHSU and also founder of Firefly
0:50.4	lab, an AI-driven platform that is built for competency-based medical education.
0:55.3	In addition, she directs the surgical data and decision sciences lab for the Department of
0:59.5	Surgery at OHSU.
1:02.2	Hi, thank you for having me on here.
1:04.1	I'm very excited to be on this podcast with all of you.
1:07.9	And we're happy to have you.
1:09.6	And we also have Dr. Marissa Sewell, a PTI4 general surgery resident
1:14.4	at OHSU. Hi, very happy to be here. Thank you for having me. So let's just start right with the case.
1:23.1	Imagine we have a 52-year-old woman with the past medical history of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease without needing home oxygen,
1:31.4	and a recent admission for a left upper lobe wedge resection for a suspicious nodule.
1:36.6	She was discharged on post-operative day two without any issues,
1:39.6	but now comes into the emergency department on post-operative day five with dysmnia.
1:44.1	Her initial
1:44.6	vital signs and physical exam are notable for a temperature of 39 degrees Celsius, a blood
1:49.5	pressure of 90 over 50, a heart rate of 115, an oxygen saturation of 87% on room air,
1:57.4	and left calf erythema and swelling approximately four centimeters greater in diameter compared to the contralateral side.
2:05.1	Dr. Thunnel, what are some key differential diagnoses and maybe some more rare considerations?
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