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The year is 2024. At a small regional hospital, an automated call has just come in, triggered by a patient's personal fitness-monitoring device, which has detected several sudden and drastic anomalies-a sharp spike in pulse rate followed by an extreme slowdown, and slow and shallow breathing. Data from her smartphone reveal she just experienced a very sudden deceleration of key vital signs. The artificial-intelligence triage system monitoring the incoming data puts the pieces together and concludes the patient has been in a car accident and may be seriously hurt and possibly unconscious. An ambulance is called, and the first responders are given the accident location and the patient's vital signs before even arriving at the scene. On the way to the hospital, the medical technicians use onboard diagnostic imaging systems to examine the patient and transmit data and images instantly to the emergency room, where a surgeon is already scrubbing up while perusing the patient's full medical history as well as the incoming data on a heads-up virtual-reality display-a more sophisticated successor to the Google Glass and Oculus Rift devices of the previous decade. Once inside the emergency room, the surgeon is assisted by an autonomous robotic device with flexible arms and nimble fingers to perform basic tasks. A microscopic camera attached to the surgeon's virtual-reality goggles displays precision views of tiny blood vessels as he carefully stitches them together. Noninvasive monitors keep track of a far more complete suite of physiological parameters than even invasive systems typically tracked a decade earlier. Similar no-contact monitors evaluate the patient continuously during her stay, even as she walks through the corridors, providing the medical staff with an instant warning of any changes in her condition that might require medication or other intervention. Several days later, the patient is discharged, wearing a comprehensive noninvasive monitoring system that sends data continuously back to the hospital to track her vital signs as she goes through a lengthy recuperation. And she's delighted to know that she was sent home days earlier than she would have been in earlier years, thanks to the security provided by that constant monitoring.
- 出版日期2014-12
- 单位MIT
