Positive suggestions via headphones during general anesthesia for the improvement of vegetative & cognitive postoperative course parameters in elderly orthopedic patients – a randomized controlled double-blinded trial (POSSUDEL)
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: Postoperative delirium and cognitive deficits are significant surgical complications, especially in elderly patients. The reported incidence of postoperative delirium is variable but notably high in cardiothoracic, orthopedic, and general surgery. The etiology of postoperative delirium is known to be multifactorial, with prevention being the most effective strategy currently available. This study aims to explore the potential benefits of positive suggestions delivered via headphones during general anesthesia on the incidence of postoperative delirium and improving postoperative pain, nausea, and cognitive outcomes in elderly orthopedic patients. METHODS: This randomized controlled double-blinded trial will involve patients aged 60 and above undergoing elective hip or knee surgery under general anesthesia. Participants will be randomized into three groups: a control group receiving no auditory intervention and two intervention groups receiving positive therapeutic suggestions via headphones from either a male or female speaker. The primary outcome is the incidence of postoperative delirium within 5 days after surgery that will be assessed by using the 4AT and 3DCAM. Secondary outcomes include pain intensity, which is measured intraoperative by nociception level index (NOL) and postoperative by NRS, medication consumption as well as postoperative nausea and vomiting. Data will be collected before, during, and after surgery as well as 3 months after surgery. DISCUSSION: This study hypothesizes that positive auditory suggestions can reduce postoperative delirium incidence, lower pain intensity as well as pain medication use, and decrease postoperative nausea, vomiting incidence, and severity. Additionally, gender differences in response to male versus female voices will be explored. The findings could offer a non-invasive, cost-effective method to enhance postoperative recovery in elderly patients, potentially leading to changes in perioperative care practices. TRIAL REGISTRATION: DRKS00030589 prospectively registered 25.10.2022.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 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".