Enhancing Surgical Outcomes with Performance-Guided Surgery

Surgery is complex. When performing similar procedures, surgeons with various skill levels, training, and experience can have vastly different outcomes. Physical demands of surgery can also compound the problem, with longer procedures causing increased levels of fatigue, elevating the chances of making technical errors, and limiting the number of procedures that can be performed each day. Through new technological advancements incorporated into surgeons’ day-to-day routines, these fundamental inconsistencies are narrowing. And while it’s important to acknowledge the pivotal role these new technologies — AI and robotics — play in the operating room — the goal of machine integration should be to elevate a surgeon’s skill level, bandwidth, and performance, not to replace them.