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ArticleJournal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association2023

The artificial placenta and EXTEND technologies: one of these things is not like the other.

Alan W Flake, Felix R De Bie, David A Munson, Chris Feudtner

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Article in Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Alan W FlakeDepartment of Surgery, Center for Fetal Research, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Department of Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. flake@chop.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-4913-7588
Felix R De BieDepartment of Surgery, Center for Fetal Research, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Department of Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
David A MunsonDivision of Neonatology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, Universityof Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Chris FeudtnerDepartment of Medical Ethics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and Departments of Pediatrics and of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5879-0434

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The so called "Artificial Placenta" and "Artificial Womb" (EXTEND) technologies share a common goal of improving outcomes for extreme premature infants. Beyond that goal, they are very dissimilar and, in our view, differ sufficiently in their technology, intervention strategy, demonstrated physiology, and risk profiles that bundling them together for consideration of the ethical challenges in designing first in human trials is misguided. In this response to the commentary by Kukora and colleagues, we will provide our perspective on these differences, and how they impact ethical clinical study design for first-in-human trials of safety/feasibility, and subsequently efficacy of the two technologies.

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Infant, PrematurePlacentaFemaleHumansInfantInfant, NewbornPregnancyTechnologyUterus

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Registered trials

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