{
  "id": 221516,
  "title": "Medically, what makes a catheter/line placement 'abnormal'?",
  "url": "/competitions/ranzcr-clip-catheter-line-classification/discussion/221516",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2021-02-23T01:33:00.744278Z",
  "votes": 3,
  "comment_count": 3,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>I'm curious to know how a medical professional would identify an abnormal catheter from one of these scans, and how this is further distinguished from one that is 'borderline'.  Is it the route the catheter takes, where it terminates, is it visibly putting pressure on anything? Or some combination of these? How does this differ, at all, between the catheter types (CVC, NGT etc)?</p>\n<p>Any answers greatly appreciated.</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "1214578",
      "postDate": "02/23/2021 01:33:00",
      "content": "<p>I'm curious to know how a medical professional would identify an abnormal catheter from one of these scans, and how this is further distinguished from one that is 'borderline'.  Is it the route the catheter takes, where it terminates, is it visibly putting pressure on anything? Or some combination of these? How does this differ, at all, between the catheter types (CVC, NGT etc)?</p>\n<p>Any answers greatly appreciated.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I'm curious to know how a medical professional would identify an abnormal catheter from one of these scans, and how this is further distinguished from one that is 'borderline'.  Is it the route the catheter takes, where it terminates, is it visibly putting pressure on anything? Or some combination of these? How does this differ, at all, between the catheter types (CVC, NGT etc)?\n\nAny answers greatly appreciated.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1214580",
      "postDate": "02/23/2021 01:33:53",
      "content": "<p>Note that some catheters are labeled as both normal and abnormal. I would like to know what that means.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Note that some catheters are labeled as both normal and abnormal. I would like to know what that means.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1216260",
      "postDate": "02/24/2021 07:01:28",
      "content": "<p>Here is a very good notebook by <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/raddar\" target=\"_blank\">@raddar</a> that explains how CVC can be abnormal: <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/raddar/cvc-categories-explained-with-examples\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.kaggle.com/raddar/cvc-categories-explained-with-examples</a>. </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Here is a very good notebook by @raddar that explains how CVC can be abnormal: https://www.kaggle.com/raddar/cvc-categories-explained-with-examples.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1217586",
      "postDate": "02/25/2021 07:12:17",
      "content": "<p>For example, an endotracheal tube should be in the trachea, also above it's bifurcation.<br>\nHere 'abnormal' means ETT too deep (beyond the bifurcation) or esophageal intubation, although the latter is quite emergent situation where we don't use chest X-ray to diagnose it (because it takes more time than other appropriate methods).</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "For example, an endotracheal tube should be in the trachea, also above it's bifurcation.\nHere 'abnormal' means ETT too deep (beyond the bifurcation) or esophageal intubation, although the latter is quite emergent situation where we don't use chest X-ray to diagnose it (because it takes more time than other appropriate methods).",
      "votes": null
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 1214580,
      "author_name": "cdeotte",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "02/23/2021 01:33:53",
      "content": "<p>Note that some catheters are labeled as both normal and abnormal. I would like to know what that means.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 1216260,
      "author_name": "yassinealouini",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "02/24/2021 07:01:28",
      "content": "<p>Here is a very good notebook by <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/raddar\" target=\"_blank\">@raddar</a> that explains how CVC can be abnormal: <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/raddar/cvc-categories-explained-with-examples\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.kaggle.com/raddar/cvc-categories-explained-with-examples</a>. </p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 1217586,
      "author_name": "drtausamaru",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "02/25/2021 07:12:17",
      "content": "<p>For example, an endotracheal tube should be in the trachea, also above it's bifurcation.<br>\nHere 'abnormal' means ETT too deep (beyond the bifurcation) or esophageal intubation, although the latter is quite emergent situation where we don't use chest X-ray to diagnose it (because it takes more time than other appropriate methods).</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    }
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    "1214578": "I'm curious to know how a medical professional would identify an abnormal catheter from one of these scans, and how this is further distinguished from one that is 'borderline'.  Is it the route the catheter takes, where it terminates, is it visibly putting pressure on anything? Or some combination of these? How does this differ, at all, between the catheter types (CVC, NGT etc)?\n\nAny answers greatly appreciated.",
    "1214580": "Note that some catheters are labeled as both normal and abnormal. I would like to know what that means.",
    "1216260": "Here is a very good notebook by @raddar that explains how CVC can be abnormal: https://www.kaggle.com/raddar/cvc-categories-explained-with-examples.",
    "1217586": "For example, an endotracheal tube should be in the trachea, also above it's bifurcation.\nHere 'abnormal' means ETT too deep (beyond the bifurcation) or esophageal intubation, although the latter is quite emergent situation where we don't use chest X-ray to diagnose it (because it takes more time than other appropriate methods)."
  },
  "source": "meta"
}