A severe case of iatrogenic lactation ketoacidosis
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Lactation ketosis is a recognised disorder in postpartum lactating cows where a negative energy balance develops because the energy demands of milk production exceed the energy capacity of the animal. Rarely, nursing women can develop problems with lactation ketosis when their glycogen stores are depleted, causing the body to turn to gluconeogenesis as an energy substrate for galactopoiesis. The authors describe the case of a breastfeeding woman admitted to hospital and made nil per os (NPO) to treat a bowel obstruction. She did not receive intravenous glucose and 3 days postadmission developed a dangerous starvation ketosis (venous pH of 6.64). She was treated with intravenous dextrose, bicarbonate as well as cessation of breastfeeding and recovered quickly. Only four previous reports describe human lactation ketosis and this is the first iatrogenic case reported to our knowledge. It highlights the importance of addressing the unique caloric requirements of nursing women, especially when they are kept NPO.
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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 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.008 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
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".