Investigation into Factors Associated with Surgical Site Infections Following Tibial Plateau Leveling Osteotomy in Dogs
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Tibial plateau leveling osteotomy (TPLO) is one of the most common surgical techniques performed to stabilize a cranial cruciate insufficient stifle in dogs. Although it is classified as a clean surgical procedure, it is associated with a high surgical site infection (SSI) rate. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus pseudintermedius (MRSP) is the predominant pathogen causing TPLO SSI and is difficult to treat because of its multi-drug resistance. This thesis is an investigation into the use of perioperative antimicrobial prophylaxis and factors associated with SSI occurrence following TPLO in dogs, including MRSP carriage. We identified that perioperative antimicrobial prophylaxis protocols are not being administered appropriately, however, failure of adherence to these protocols was not associated with SSI. Furthermore, preoperative MRSP carriage was a risk factor and postoperative antimicrobial use was protective against the occurrence of TPLO SSI. Further study into the factors associated with TPLO SSI is required to understand this clinically important challenge.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 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 | 0.001 |
| 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.
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".