Extraction of radiolucent fractured wire components using intracardiac ultrasound during pulmonary vein isolation procedure
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Abstract
Key Teaching Points•New curved wires such as the ProTrack transseptal wire (Baylis Medical, Toronto, Canada) can be subject to fracture owing to their more complex construction.•Fractured wire components may be invisible to standard fluoroscopy, despite the presence of substantial amounts of stainless steel wire as a result of very-thin-diameter components that constitute the wire itself.•Intracardiac ultrasound remains an effective tool for visualizing all fragments of metal, as the thin-diameter metal components remain clearly visible on ultrasound imaging.•Consideration of ultrasound scanning should be made in situations where retained wire fragments are suspected but not seen on fluoroscopic imaging.•In the course of transseptal puncture, the use of high-quality intracardiac ultrasound imaging should be considered to ensure that the entirety of the interatrial septum is crossed by the transseptal sheath prior to removal of the transseptal needle. •New curved wires such as the ProTrack transseptal wire (Baylis Medical, Toronto, Canada) can be subject to fracture owing to their more complex construction.•Fractured wire components may be invisible to standard fluoroscopy, despite the presence of substantial amounts of stainless steel wire as a result of very-thin-diameter components that constitute the wire itself.•Intracardiac ultrasound remains an effective tool for visualizing all fragments of metal, as the thin-diameter metal components remain clearly visible on ultrasound imaging.•Consideration of ultrasound scanning should be made in situations where retained wire fragments are suspected but not seen on fluoroscopic imaging.•In the course of transseptal puncture, the use of high-quality intracardiac ultrasound imaging should be considered to ensure that the entirety of the interatrial septum is crossed by the transseptal sheath prior to removal of the transseptal needle.
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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) | 0.001 | 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 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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