Comparison of the effects of lidocaine versus lidocaine and xylazine for proximal paravertebral nerve blocks in adult dairy cattle
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Paravertebral nerve blocks provide regional anesthesia to the abdominal flank by anesthetizing the 13th thoracic (T13) spinal nerve and first (L1) and second (L2) lumbar spinal nerves. The anesthesia provided to the associated abdominal muscles and peritoneum of the affected dermatomes make these useful for standing abdominal surgeries performed in adult cattle. While lidocaine is the typical local anesthetic used, the duration of action produced may be variable leading to the anesthetic effects wearing off before the end of longer surgeries. Xylazine, an alpha-2 adrenoceptor agonist, has been reported to augment anesthetic and analgesic effects when used with lidocaine in other blocks (Grubb et al., 2002; Shokry and Elkasapy, 2018). Xylazine is a relatively inexpensive drug and has a short withdrawal time, making it a good option for cattle. Increasing the duration of action of the block will not only provide longer coverage during prolonged surgeries, but also aid in post-operative pain control. The objective was to compare the length of duration of the analgesic effects of proximal paravertebral nerve blocks using lidocaine alone compared with lidocaine and xylazine in adult dairy cattle. The hypothesis was that the duration of action of the lidocaine-xylazine group would be longer than the lidocaine only group.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| 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 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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