Preliminary evaluation of novel skin closure of Pfannenstiel incisions using cold helium plasma and chitosan films
Bibliographic record
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To assess the safety and performance of a new energy-based skin closure system (BioWeld1(TM)) for the surgical Pfannenstiel incision in patients scheduled for elective cesarean section. METHODS: This prospective, single center, non-randomized study included 20 patients who were scheduled for elective cesarean section. The BioWeld1 system was performed after suturing the internal layers of the cesarean section incision. A clinical evaluation of safety and efficacy was performed for 1, 2, 4-7, 21, and 45 d after the procedure. The Vancouver Scar Scale (VSS) was used to evaluate scarring. RESULTS: Up to 21 d after the procedure, no safety device-related adverse events were reported. All patients had full closure of the epidermis, a very low total VSS score, and no evidence of discharge, redness, edema, or thermal damage. None of the patients exhibited more than a mild degree of encrustation. CONCLUSION: The BioWeld1 System has been shown to be safe and effective for skin closure in cesarean section.
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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 | 0.002 |
| 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 | 0.000 |
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".