How AI is transforming healthcare across the country — Transcript

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1. 0:00Code sepsis. This is what doctors at the
2. 0:03Cleveland Clinic hear when a patient
3. 0:04develops sepsis, a bold alert for the
4. 0:07number one leading cause of hospital
5. 0:08deaths across the US, impacting
6. 0:11millions.
7. 0:11>> Sepsis is a life-threatening medical
8. 0:13emergency caused by the body's response
9. 0:15to infection. But now, doctors say
10. 0:18there's a new tool to help fight it off.
11. 0:20It's not an antibiotic or a medical
12. 0:22device, it's AI. Just one example of how
13. 0:25it's transforming medicine. Here, Dr.
14. 0:28James Morrison says helping identify
15. 0:30sepsis faster than ever before. A
16. 0:32patient might come in reporting chest
17. 0:34pain or something like that. You're
18. 0:35going to be thinking of a heart attack.
19. 0:37Sepsis might not be the first thing you
20. 0:38think of. While you're focusing on the
21. 0:40patient, talking to them about what's
22. 0:41going on, and the data starts to come
23. 0:43in, the AI can be working at the same
24. 0:45time to say, "Does any of this fit with
25. 0:47a pattern of sepsis?" The Cleveland
26. 0:48Clinic, which has invested in this
27. 0:50technology, showed us how it works in
28. 0:52real time from a digital dummy patient,
29. 0:55pulling data like heart rate,
30. 0:56temperature, and oxygen levels. All of
31. 0:59those are indicative to us that patient
32. 1:01could have a new infection or sepsis.
33. 1:04Last year across our system, we had over
34. 1:0630,000 sepsis cases, about 2,000 deaths,
35. 1:10and we've seen that our sepsis efforts
36. 1:12have driven down those deaths by by
37. 1:13hundreds per year. If their tool is like
38. 1:16a security system constantly monitoring
39. 1:18your body, in North Carolina, a spine
40. 1:20surgeon is using AI differently. This is
41. 1:22how I've often described it to patients
42. 1:24is it tells me where I am, even though I
43. 1:26may not know with my own eyes, just like
44. 1:29a GPS in your car would do. Dr. Brett
45. 1:31Rocque at Duke Health says this new
46. 1:33technology gives him a 3D view of the
47. 1:35patient's spine in real time. Made by
48. 1:38Proprio, advanced sensors work to
49. 1:40digitally replicate a patient's spinal
50. 1:42anatomy. Dr. Rocque says the tool can
51. 1:44help shorten complicated hours-long
52. 1:47surgeries.
53. 1:48What that means for the patient is
54. 1:49they're having less anesthetic, less
55. 1:51time asleep on the operating table, less
56. 1:53bleeding. The AI tool is FDA-approved,
57. 1:56already used in over 100 surgeries, with
58. 1:59the company saying more hospitals are
59. 2:01now set to test it. Meanwhile, back in
60. 2:03Ohio, the Cleveland Clinic will also
61. 2:05start testing the world's first
62. 2:06neurological AI model that's not trained
63. 2:08on text, but on electrical brainwaves.
64. 2:11Seizures there are storms of electricity
65. 2:13happening in the brain. Dr. Imad Najm
66. 2:16runs the hospital's epilepsy center.
67. 2:18Wow. This is the center and monitoring
68. 2:20unit that we're looking at
69. 2:22recordings, brainwave recordings, Ohio,
70. 2:25Florida, or even in Abu Dhabi, United
71. 2:28Arab Emirates. You can see people here
72. 2:30in the UAE. Exactly. Wow.
73. 2:35It's a patient who just had a seizure
74. 2:37now. That that voice we just heard Yeah.
75. 2:39Monitoring all these screens isn't easy
76. 2:41with the human eye, but AI is always on
77. 2:44and can more quickly recognize subtle
78. 2:45patterns. We may be seeing something
79. 2:48which is difficult to ascertain that it
80. 2:50is a seizure or not. Our AI model will
81. 2:53be able to detect it as early as 40-50
82. 2:57seconds before. Kristen was diagnosed
83. 2:59with epilepsy in 2016, but says despite
84. 3:02the meds, her seizures haven't stopped.
85. 3:04Now she's here looking for answers.
86. 3:06They're bringing artificial intelligence
87. 3:08or AI into that EEG. How would you feel
88. 3:10about something like that? That'd be
89. 3:11really cool. If it's something in as
90. 3:13much as it's looking at those patterns
91. 3:16to see if it can find like a trace, um
92. 3:19that would be great. I don't want it to
93. 3:21obviously take the role of clinicians
94. 3:24who are there to help advise and make
95. 3:26like ethical decisions. And it comes as
96. 3:28people turn to AI for medical diagnoses,
97. 3:31the next stage of what's dubbed
98. 3:32cyberchondria, something experts
99. 3:35caution. And the industry is also
100. 3:36grappling with how to address strict
101. 3:38data privacy laws. But doctors say it
102. 3:40can still assist. Use artificial
103. 3:43intelligence to complement human
104. 3:46intelligence and using human
105. 3:48intelligence to make the final decision.
106. 3:51So it's still humans treating humans,
107. 3:53now with a helping hand. Dr. Akshay
108. 3:55Sura, NBC News, Cleveland, Ohio.
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