Patient Safety in Surgery
Current cybersecurity threats to patient safety in the operating room: a review
Abstract Surgical, anesthetic, and intensive care practices now depend on a large ecosystem of wired and wireless devices, robotic consoles, imaging and laboratory systems, and cloud infrastructure: the Internet of Medical Things and the smart operating room, which extends care beyond the physical theatre to transcontinental telesurgery. Connectivity that is useful in routine care becomes a failure mode during a cyber incident because surgical pathways depend on uninterrupted access to scheduling, imaging, electron …