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Record W2144114024

Case report: unexplained syncope explained.

2001· article· fr· W2144114024 on OpenAlexaff
Roland Grad, Bernard L. Segal

Bibliographic record

VenuePubMed · 2001
Typearticle
Languagefr
FieldMedicine
TopicCardiovascular Syncope and Autonomic Disorders
Canadian institutionsJewish General Hospital
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicineEmergency departmentSinus rhythmHeart failureNocturiaSalbutamolPediatricsAnesthesiaInhalerCardiologyInternal medicineAsthmaAtrial fibrillation
DOInot available

Abstract

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An elderly patient with multiple chronic diseases and nonspecific symptoms might present a diagnostic challenge, in part because of the risk of drug-drug and drugdisease interactions. We report a case of unexplained syncope of unexpected origin. Case report A 93-year-old woman living alone in the community was found unconscious in the bathtub. She was admitted to hospital by a cardiologist and discharged after an uneventful 24-hour stay. Two days later, she was found lying on her bedroom floor. She was taken back to the emergency department, where she was alert and able to get in and out of bed, get on and off the toilet, and walk with minimal assistance. Her heart rate varied from 48 to 60 beats a minute and cardiac rhythm was irregular. There were no focal neurologic signs. Electrocardiographic examination revealed sinus rhythm with atrial premature beats and left ventricular hypertrophy. She was re-admitted to hospital by her family physician. Her history showed three syncopal events over a 2-year period since starting donepezil for Alzheimer’stype dementia. She had heart failure from diastolic dysfunction, mild obstructive pulmonary disease, and essential hypertension. Medications included clonidine, 0.05 mg bid; furosemide, 20 mg daily; various vitamins; and salbutamol, ipratropium, and fluticasone via metered dose inhaler. Because clinical trials have reported a doubling of the risk of syncope in treated subjects, 1 donepezil was

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Case report · Consensus signal: Case report
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.007
Threshold uncertainty score0.016

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0030.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0030.001
Scholarly communication0.0020.002
Open science0.0020.001
Research integrity0.0070.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.003

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 head0.024
GPT teacher head0.232
Teacher spread0.208 · 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

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

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