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Record W2183708303 · doi:10.4037/ajcc2003.12.2.136

From Theory to Practice: Preventing Pain After Cardiac Surgery

2003· article· en· W2183708303 on OpenAlex
Jocelyn Reimer-Kent

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Bibliographic record

VenueAmerican Journal of Critical Care · 2003
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicAnesthesia and Pain Management
Canadian institutionsRoyal Columbian Hospital
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicineAcetaminophenGuidelineAnesthesiaAnalgesicOpioidAdverse effectCardiac surgeryMorphineSurgeryInternal medicine

Abstract

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A pain management guideline was developed at the Royal Columbian Hospital, New Westminster, British Columbia, to prevent pain after cardiac surgery. The guideline was based on a wellness model and was predicted on the World Health Organization's analgesic ladder. Patients are given nonopioids around the clock and throughout the postoperative stay and are given an opioid to prevent procedural pain and treat breakthrough pain. In an evaluation of the guideline, records from 133 cardiac surgery patients were retrospectively reviewed. The type and dose of analgesics administered for the first 6 days after surgery, the effectiveness of the pain management plan, the occurrence of adverse effects, time to extubation, and postoperative lengths of stay were determined. Ninety-five percent of patients had effective pain relief. Almost all patients received acetaminophen around the clock. A total of 89% received indomethacin. All patients received opioids intermittently. Doses of opioids were converted to morphine oral equivalents, which peaked on day 1 after surgery (38 equivalents) and decreased sharply by day 2 (< 10 equivalents). Median postoperative length of stay was 5 days for patients who had bypass surgery and 6 days for patients who had valve surgery. This proactive, low-tech, low-risk, well-tolerated pain management approach is cost-effective, simple, and feasible to use. The findings support use of this approach in managing pain after cardiac surgery.

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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)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.008
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.762
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.008
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Opus teacher head0.010
GPT teacher head0.307
Teacher spread0.298 · 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