Decision Making in CARDIOLOGY An Algorithmic Approach
Decision Making in CARDIOLOGY An Algorithmic Approach
Achyut Sarkar MD DM (Cardiology) FACC
Professor of Cardiology Ex-Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (IPGME&R) Consulting Interventional Cardiologist Woodland Hospital and BM Birla Heart Research Center Kolkata, West Bengal, India
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My beloved daughter Parnisha and son Arjab.
“Artificial intelligence will reach human levels by around 2029. Follow that out further to, say, 2045, and we will have multiplied the intelligence – the human biological machine intelligence of our civilization – a billion-fold.”
—Ray Kurzweli
(American inventor and futurist)
Algorithm is a “set of rules that precisely defines a sequence of operation,” typically used to perform a computation. Algorithm is an essential language used in artificial intelligence, which is gradually creeping in cardiology, like every field of science and technology. I have tried to express decision-making in cardiology in a language of future, i.e., algorithm. All the common day-to-day problems in cardiology have been discussed. In addition, the emerging issues such as primary electrical abnormalities, sudden cardiac death, cardio-oncology, geriatric cardiology, and sports cardiology have been included. And certainly, the treatise begins with a section on artificial intelligence in cardiology.
Robots are not going to replace us, the cardiologists. Difficult, demeaning, demanding, dangerous, dull—these are the jobs robots will be taking. We will go on practicing clinical cardiology, using their language—algorithm.
Achyut Sarkar
Acknowledgments
I wish to thank M/S Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd, New Delhi, India for whom the creation of this book has become possible. I thank my late parents. Their memories are still great inspiration. I thank my daughter Parnisha and son Arjab. Their academic aptitude has always been encouraging to me and Dr Asima Sarkar, my wife who is a great blessing in my life. She has sacrified her invaluable professional time and supported my academic activities. I thank her with immense gratitude.