F-073THE EFFECT OF COLCHICINE ADMINISTRATION ON POSTOPERATIVE PLEURAL EFFUSION FOLLOWING THORACIC SURGERY: A RANDOMIZED, DOUBLE BLIND, PLACEBO-CONTROLLED, FEASIBILITY PILOT STUDY
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Abstract
Objectives: Colchicine was previously found to be effective in preventing postoperative pericardial effusion following cardiac surgery with potent anti-inflammatory effects. This study seeks to assess its effect on the volume of postoperative pleural drainage, duration of chest tube in-situ and length of stay following lung resection. Methods: Between April 2014 and April 2015, 100 patients undergoing lung resection at two tertiary care centres were randomized to either colchicine (n = 49) or placebo (n = 51) treatment arms), as part of a feasibility, pilot double-blind study assessing colchicine for prevention of perioperative atrial fibrillation. Patients received either colchicine 0.6 mg or placebo orally twice daily for 10 days, with the first dose given 4 hours prior to surgery. Pleural drainage volumes were recorded in 8-hour intervals until chest tube removal as per a standardized, pre-defined protocol. Results: The two groups were comparable on baseline characteristics with regard to cancer stage, comorbidities, surgical approach and extent of resection (51% open procedures; 86% anatomic resections), but not for gender, coronary artery disease and hypertension. Analysis of total drainage volumes demonstrated a statistically significant difference in favour of the colchicine group (583.8 vs 763.3 ml, P = 0.039), with findings that remained consistent across the time intervals collected. The volume of pleural drainage at 1-hour postop was significantly less in the colchicine group (92.9 vs 156.6 ml, P = 0.008), and remained lower at the 40-hour interval (550.9 vs 741.3 ml, P = 0.039). There were no differences in time to chest tube removal (6.8 vs 5.9 days, P = 0.585), hospital length of stay (7.4 vs 6.9 days, P = 0.641), or with regards to major bleeding, infection or adverse events. Conclusion: Perioperative administration of oral colchicine is potentially effective in diminishing the amount of pleural drainage post-lung resection. A full-scale, prospective placebo-control randomized trial is needed to assess the clinical significance of perioperative colchicine administration. Disclosure: A. Bessissow, J. Agzarian, S. Srinathan, L. Schneider, P. Devereaux, J. Neary W. Dechert, L, Gandy, C. finley, W.C. Hanna. C. Schieman and Y. Shargal: Colchicine, prepared by Bay Area Research Laboratory. P. Devereaux: Research grants: Canadian Institute of Health Research Open Operating Grant; Physicians Services Incorporated Foundation Research Grant, J. Neary: Research grants: Physicians Services Incorporated Foundation Research Grant.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.015 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 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) | 0.000 | 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 teacher head, not a consensus.
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