Apnea Testing Using Continuous Positive Airway Pressure When Determining Death by Neurologic Criteria in Children: Retrospective Analysis of Potential Adverse Events*
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Abstract
OBJECTIVES: To determine the prevalence of adverse events during apnea testing for determination of death by neurologic criteria using continuous positive airway pressure in children. DESIGN: Single-center retrospective descriptive study. SETTING: Academic children's hospital. PATIENTS: Children evaluated for death by neurologic criteria in the PICU from 2013 to 2018. INTERVENTIONS: None. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: For each patient evaluated for death by neurologic criteria, we abstracted the number of apnea tests performed, vital signs and arterial blood gases during apnea testing, and outcome from the medical record. Adverse events were defined as oxygen-hemoglobin desaturation (arterial oxygen saturation < 85%), hypotension, or other significant event (e.g. arrhythmia, cardiac arrest) based on documentation in the medical record. We determined which adverse events resulted in early termination of the apnea test. We used oxygenation index, ventilator variables, and presence of vasopressors to determine preapnea test cardiopulmonary dysfunction. Seventy-two patients (age 7 yr [2.7-13.2 yr]; 48% male) underwent 121 apnea tests. Nine patients (12%) had 13 potential apnea tests deferred due to concern for cardiopulmonary instability as determined by the attending physician. Patients who underwent apnea testing had an oxygenation index of 3.5 (2.5-4.8) and were receiving vasopressors at the time of 108 apnea tests (89%). Hypotension was reported during seven apnea tests (6%) and resulted in the early termination of one apnea test (<1%). No other adverse events were reported. One hundred and twenty apnea tests (99%) were consistent with death by neurologic criteria. CONCLUSIONS: Apnea testing following a protocol that uses continuous positive airway pressure for apneic oxygenation has a low rate of adverse events in children meeting prerequisite criteria and determined by a pediatric intensivist to be physiologically appropriate for testing.
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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 | 0.012 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| 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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