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Misplaced central venous catheter

2001· letter· en· W2039205391 on OpenAlexfundno aff
J. Kenningham, O. Dearlove, Brennan Wilson

Bibliographic record

VenueAnaesthesia · 2001
Typeletter
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicCentral Venous Catheters and Hemodialysis
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersMcGill University
KeywordsMedicinePneumothoraxCatheterSurgeryGeneral anaesthesiaMediastinumTransplantationAnesthesia

Abstract

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A 41-kg 14-year-old girl with chronic renal failure was referred to our unit for renal transplantation. She had recently had a veno-venous haemodialysis catheter inserted at another hospital. Our paediatricians were unable to aspirate blood freely from this catheter, so a chest X-ray was taken. The catheter was seen to pass inferior to the middle third of the left clavicle and to lie with its tip against the left side of the mediastinum. It was thought that this was most unlikely to lie in a central vein other than an anomalous one such as a left superior vena cava. Twenty millilitres of Niopam 300 was injected into the line. The contrast was seen to flow away into a natural space, so an erect PA chest X-ray was taken (Fig. 5). This shows the contrast collected in the subpulmonary part of the left pleural space (arrow). No pneumothorax is seen. The line was not removed pre-operatively because of concern that if intra-operative heparinisation was required (to aid graft patency) bleeding might be a problem. We were also concerned about precipitating a pneumothorax. The line was spigoted off and labelled ‘do not use’. The renal transplant was uneventfully carried out under general anaesthesia according to our hospital protocol. Postoperatively the transplanted kidney functioned well. Several days later the misplaced catheter was removed in the operating theatre under general anaesthesia. A chest X-ray taken 2 h later showed a large left-sided pneumothorax. An intercostal drain was inserted under general anaesthesia. A chest X-ray taken later that evening showed that the lung had partially re-expanded. Full expansion required the application of negative pressure to the drain. The patient was discharged home 26 days after her transplant. Misplaced vascular catheters are newsworthy items at present [1]. They may cause the unfortunate doctor to become involved with the General Medical Council. In view of the current ‘one-strike-and-you-are-out’ phase that regulation of the medical profession is going through, we must take meticulous care both with our own vascular catheters and those inserted by others.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Research integrity, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesResearch integrity, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: Commentary
Teacher disagreement score0.028
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0020.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.004

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.

Opus teacher head0.037
GPT teacher head0.322
Teacher spread0.285 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreCommentary

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".

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