Risk‐Stratified Observation After Asymptomatic Paediatric Scorpion Envenomation May Safely Reduce Emergency Department Stay
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Abstract
AIM: Current emergency department (ED) protocols in prone regions recommend monitoring for at least 4-6 h after paediatric scorpion envenomation. Since only limited evidence supports these guidelines, particularly for asymptomatic children, we evaluated routine ED observation in these patients. METHODS: We conducted a retrospective cohort study of southern Israeli children presenting with scorpion envenomation over a 15-month period using a validated envenomation severity score. The primary outcome was the development of delayed systemic symptoms requiring intervention. Children with Grade 1 scores (mild) were compared to those with Grade ≥ 2 scores (more severe). RESULTS: Of 287 patients, 238 (83%) presented with mild, and 49 (17%) with more severe envenomation. Less than 1% of mild patients developed delayed symptoms, all of which resolved with conservative management, and 99% were discharged. More severe patients were younger (median age 3.1 vs. 5.8 years), had a higher prevalence of allergy (31% vs. 13%), and 94% developed immediate symptoms requiring hospitalisation. CONCLUSION: A risk-stratified approach taking into consideration age, time since envenomation, history of allergies, and symptom severity could safely reduce ED observation time since children with mild scorpion envenomation symptoms had a low risk of developing significant delayed complications.
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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
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 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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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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