Be Patient: Prolonged Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Support Including Full System Switch With Favorable Outcome
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Despite tremendous advances in treatment, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) remains a disease with high mortality (42-48%). Veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VV-ECMO) is often used as a last treatment option, which poses complex problems for the treatment team, especially with prolonged ECMO support. We report an interesting case of a 40-year-old female patient who developed influenza pneumonia leading to ARDS and subsequently requiring ECMO. Due to severe clotting complications, a prolonged ECMO run time with numerous filter changes was required. After a total of 56 days of ECMO therapy, the patient was successfully weaned. Fortunately, further in the course of treatment, complete recovery with restitutio ad integrum was achieved. A distinguishing feature of this case report is the description of a complete ECMO system change and the concurrent use of two ECMO systems for the same patient. Additionally, we provide data on the patient’s current health-related quality of life as measured using the World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0. J Med Cases. 2022;13(10):483-490 doi: https://doi.org/10.14740/jmc3979
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".