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Record W2165114658 · doi:10.1177/1089253206288991

Transesophageal Echocardiography in the Intensive Care Unit

2006· review· en· W2165114658 on OpenAlex
Jacek Karski

Why this work is in the frame

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueSeminars in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia · 2006
Typereview
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicUltrasound in Clinical Applications
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicineIntracardiac injectionPericardial effusionCardiologyRadiologyIntensive care unitInternal medicineTamponadeCardiac tamponadeBlunt

Abstract

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Transesophageal echocardiography provides unique diagnostic capabilities, allowing for a very precise look at the structure and hemodynamics of the human heart. It is minimally invasive and portable, and quickly diagnoses sudden hemodynamic changes in intensive care patients. It provides invaluable and precise information about myocardial dysfunction and intracardiac volume status. It can diagnose dynamic left ventricular outflow obstruction, infrequent but serious complication of aortic valve replacement, septal myectomy, or mitral valve repair. Transesophageal echocardiography examination can exclude cardiac tamponade and intracardiac source of embolization, and it offers the ability to visualize native or prosthetic valves and assesses their function in the postoperative period. It is helpful in diagnosing endocarditis and the presence of intracardiac masses. In the diagnosis of blunt chest trauma, transesophageal echocardiography offers a fast and safe look at ascending and descending aorta and pericardial effusion, facilitating future decisions about patient management. In patients with postoperative hypoxia, it can exclude intracardiac shunt. Finally, in heart transplants or in managing patients with mechanical heart assist devices, transesophageal echocardiography is an invaluable tool in assessing progress of treatment and complications arising from the procedures. With the introduction of multiplane transesophageal echocardiography probes, technology, and experienced personnel, transesophageal echocardiography becomes the extension of the physical examination in the intensive care unit. This example is one of only a few whereby technology brings the physician closer to the patient.

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Full frame distilled prediction

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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.969
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0030.002
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0010.001
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 head0.044
GPT teacher head0.375
Teacher spread0.331 · 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