AI in High-Stakes Surgery

Design a comprehensive framework for evaluating, regulating, and implementing real-time AI assistants in critical medical procedures. Your framework should cover governance roles and accountability, clinical validation and oversight, informed patient consent processes, data privacy and security, surgeon training and oversight, risk mitigation and fallback protocols, and pathways for scalable deployment that account for resource variation between health systems. Include scenarios for error handling, escalation, and ongoing post-implementation monitoring.