A comparison of rectal and intramuscular codeine phosphate in children following neurosurgery
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Codeine is frequently used for postoperative analgesia in children. Intramuscular injections are not ideal and the rectal route may be preferable. We compared rectal and intramuscular codeine administered following neurosurgery. 20 children (over 3 months) undergoing elective neurosurgical procedures, were randomized to receive either rectal or intramuscular codeine phospate (1 mg.kg-1) at the end of the procedure. Serum levels of codeine and morphine were assayed at intervals following administration (0, 30, 60, 120, 240 min). Fentanyl was the intraoperative analgesic and postoperative rescue analgesia was paracetamol, diclofenac and intramuscular codeine. The Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Pain Scale was used to assess analgesia. Peak codeine levels in both groups were observed at 30 min and morphine levels were consistently low. The plasma codeine levels were significantly greater at 30 and 60 min following intramuscular injection, and were associated with slightly better analgesia scores, but did not reach statistical significance. However, the peak plasma level occurred at similar times in both groups. Codeine is absorbed as rapidly via the rectal route compared with the intramuscular route but the peak levels are lower.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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.
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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".