Use of a rectus sheath block to provide successful perioperative analgesia for umbilical hernia repair in a Boer goat ( <i>Capra aegagrus hircus</i> )
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Providing perioperative analgesia in farm animal species is often hampered by limited analgesic agent availability, legal restrictions, or an absence of licensed products. A 38.7 kg, 6‐month‐old male Boer goat presented for surgical repair of a non‐strangulated umbilical hernia. Following preanaesthetic sedation with intramuscular xylazine (0.05 mg/kg), general anaesthesia was induced with intravenous midazolam (0.2 mg/kg) and ketamine (2.3 mg/kg) and maintained with isoflurane carried in oxygen. An ultrasound‐guided rectus sheath block was performed, with 0.5 mL/kg of lidocaine 1% delivered in each of the two injection sites. Surgery progressed uneventfully, with no indications of nociception: autonomic responses to surgical stimulation were not observed, with stability in heart rate, respiration rate and arterial blood pressure. Yohimbine (0.1 mg/kg) was given intravenously to accelerate recovery and facilitate tracheal extubation. The goat was returned to its owner 1.5 hours after recovery, and the owner reported a rapid return to normal function (eating, drinking and voiding).
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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 | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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.
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".