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Record W4410122359 · doi:10.24908/pocusj.v10i01.18408

The Expanding Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Paradigm

2025· article· en· W4410122359 on OpenAlexaffvenue
Katie Wiskar

Bibliographic record

VenuePOCUS Journal · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicUltrasound in Clinical Applications
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPoint of care ultrasoundPoint of careUltrasoundPoint (geometry)Computer scienceIntensive care medicineMedicineRadiologyNursingMathematics

Abstract

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Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) is an ever-evolving technology that has become integral to clinical practice in a variety of domains.Since its inception in Emergency Medicine (EM) in the 1980s, POCUS has traditionally been viewed as a tool to make binary decisions in response to focused clinical questions [1,2].Current literature continues to cite POCUS as a means to rule in or out specific diagnoses and answer simple, yes-or-no questions: Is there a live intrauterine pregnancy?Is this abdominal pain caused by an abdominal aortic aneurysm?Is this leg swelling due to a deep vein thrombosis [3-5]?The adage that each POCUS scan should answer one specific question is often recited in POCUS education tools, and POCUS archiving and reporting materials are typically centered around this same binary paradigm [6].This view is particularly prevalent among those who are less familiar with POCUS, who view the tool as a limited, operatordependent technology to make these types of quick decisions.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.021
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.032
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: Commentary
Teacher disagreement score0.021
Threshold uncertainty score0.109

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0210.032
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.001
Bibliometrics0.0030.003
Science and technology studies0.0010.008
Scholarly communication0.0070.011
Open science0.0040.007
Research integrity0.0070.010
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0110.004

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.

Opus teacher head0.019
GPT teacher head0.358
Teacher spread0.339 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreCommentary

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".

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