Complications in a Consecutive Series of 250 Free Flap Operations
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
In Brief The purpose of this study was to determine the rate of major and minor flap, donor site, and systemic complications in a consecutive series of 250 free flap operations. The following factors were analyzed to determine their significance on complication rates: age of patient, gender, wound etiology, smoking history, type of flap, operative time, vein graft use, surgeon experience, and the presence of comorbid disease. The major flap, donor-site, and systemic complication rates were 17.2%, 2%, and 6.4%, respectively. The minor flap, donor-site, and systemic complication rates were 7.2%, 12.8%, and 7.2%, respectively. The presence of comorbid medical condition was the only factor which had a statistically significant impact on the rate of major flap complications (P = 0.02). Age and comorbid disease impacted on major systemic complications (P = 0.04). A review of 250 consecutive free transfers disclosed major flap complications in 17.2%, major donor site complications in 2%, and systemic complications in 6.4%. The only factor associated with an increase in major flap complications was the presence of a comorbid medical condition.
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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 | 0.001 |
| 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) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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