Bibliographic record
Abstract
We show in this report that fresh frozen plasma (FFP) can be thawed faster using a specifically designed microwave oven (MWO) (WesLabs Plasma Defroster, Westmorland Laboratories, Inc., New Brunswick, Canada) than using 37 degrees C water bath (WB) and that the thawed product was equivalent to FFP thawed by WB. Paired plasma bags (200 mL/bag) from plasma pools were frozen, stored at -35 degrees C, and thawed in parallel, one bag in MWO, the other in WB. Mean thaw time (mean + SD) by MWO was 6.99 + 1.3 minutes; by WB the time was 17.6 + 1.7 minutes (n = 24; P less than 0.005). Rapid calorimetry of thawed plasma showed that MWO-thawed FFP temperature was 20.4 + 2.5 degrees C, whereas WB-thawed FFP was 15.4 + 3.3 degrees C (n = 24; P less than 0.005). Except for thrombin time (MWO = 20.1 seconds; WB = 19.8 seconds; n = 24; P = 0.023), no significant differences were observed in the 23 other coagulation parameters and plasma proteins studied. Faster thawing and freedom from risk of contamination may make MWO the method of choice for emergency thawing of FFP.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".