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Benefits of Parental Presence Outweigh Risks

2001· article· en· W2065929441 on OpenAlexaffabout
Jerrold Lerman

Bibliographic record

VenueAnesthesiology · 2001
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicAnesthesia and Sedative Agents
Canadian institutionsSickKids Foundation
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicineIntensive care medicineEnvironmental health

Abstract

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Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. lerman@anaes.sickkids.on.caIn Reply:—I thank Dr. Watson for her comments about parental presence at induction of anesthesia (PPIA). Dr. Watson suggests that “a more positive view of parental presence” should be adopted. I disagree. I believe that all interventions should be evidence-based, and, at the present time, no studies indicate that all children benefit from PPIA. 1In contrast, midazolam is uniformly effective without regard to age, temperament, or the child’s or parent’s anxiety level. 2In a busy anesthetic practice, it is easy to understand why midazolam is preferred to PPIA. Dr. Watson also contends that we ought to determine how parental presence “can be made more effective.” I agree. All parents should be required to attend a seminar on induction of anesthesia by responsible physicians, and their role and the limitations of their participation in the induction should be explained. The parents should then be screened: Those who are likely to be positive influences on their children would be permitted to accompany their child, and those who would be negative influences would not be permitted. This is not the standard in most institutions, most likely because of the enormous expense and time that would be needed. It has been my experience that parents request to accompany their child to induction without any preparation for the events that may ensue. Regarding the issue of cardiac dysrhythmias, Kataria et al. 3reported that arrhythmias occurred in 10% of parents during PPIA, with ventricular tachycardia developing in one parent. Finally, cultural, economic, and infrastructure issues are far more complex than alluded to by Dr. Watson. There are few multilingual nurses, few nurses who can leave a child at induction, few induction rooms, and limited resources to address PPIA programs in many institutions. I believe PPIA should be approached in the same manner as any new drug: Properly conducted studies must demonstrate its effectiveness and safety before it is released for widespread use by the public. Until that time, it should be a limited resource.

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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 categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.007
Threshold uncertainty score0.364

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.070
GPT teacher head0.322
Teacher spread0.251 · 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; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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