{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,10]],"date-time":"2026-08-10T15:17:49Z","timestamp":1786375069516,"version":"build-2736575974"},"reference-count":27,"publisher":"Frontiers Media SA","license":[{"start":{"date-parts":[[2026,1,12]],"date-time":"2026-01-12T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1768176000000},"content-version":"vor","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/"}],"content-domain":{"domain":["frontiersin.org"],"crossmark-restriction":true},"short-container-title":["Front. Med."],"abstract":"\n Background<\/jats:title>\n Elderly patients undergoing painless gastrointestinal endoscopy are at increased risk for sedation-related adverse events (SRAEs) because of their greater physiological vulnerability and higher likelihood of comorbidities. Risk stratification before endoscopy may improve perioperative safety and individualize sedation and management.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Objective<\/jats:title>\n This study aimed to develop and internally validate a Firth-penalized multivariable logistic regression model and nomogram to predict SRAEs in elderly patients undergoing painless gastrointestinal endoscopy.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Methods<\/jats:title>\n \n Prospective data from 520 patients at least 60 years old who underwent painless gastrointestinal endoscopy between April 2023 and June 2024 at our medical center were randomly divided into a training set (\n n<\/jats:italic>\n = 364) and validation set (\n n<\/jats:italic>\n = 156). SRAEs were defined as intraoperative hypotension or hypoxemia, and independent predictors of SRAEs in the training set were identified through Firth\u2019s penalized multivariable logistic regression. A nomogram to predict risk of SRAEs was developed using R software and tested against the validation set. Its performance was assessed in terms of receiver operating characteristic curves, calibration plots, and decision curve analysis.\n <\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Results<\/jats:title>\n \n In the training set, hypotension and hypoxemia occurred in 39.0 and 33.5% of patients, respectively, the incidence of SRAEs was 45.6%. The independent predictors were older age, history of snoring, frailty, preexisting hypertension, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, prolonged fasting before the procedure, and higher initial dose of etomidate-propofol. Conversely, regular physical activity was a protective factor. The nomogram built from the training set discriminated between people in the validation set who experienced SRAEs or not with an area under the curve of 0.92 (95% CI, 0.86\u20130.97), it showed good calibration in the Hosmer\u2013Lemeshow test (\n P<\/jats:italic>\n = 0.63), and decision curve analysis demonstrated clinical utility across a wide range of threshold probabilities (7\u201393%).\n <\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n A predictive model based on readily available clinical variables can accurately estimate SRAE risk in elderly patients undergoing painless gastrointestinal endoscopy. 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