Life-threatening Skin Disorders Treated in the Burn Center: Impact of Health care–associated Infections on Length of Stay, Survival, and Hospital Charges

This article reviews a single burn center experience with life-threatening skin disorders, over a 10-year period. It explores the incidence of health care–associated infections and the impact on length of stay, hospital charges, and mortality

Even Better Than the Real Thing? Xenografting in Pediatric Patients with Scald Injury

This article reviews a single burn center experience with porcine xenografts to treat pediatric scald injuries, over a 10-year period. The authors compare xenografting to autografting, as well as wound care only, and provide outcome data on length of stay, incidence of health care–associated infections, and need for reconstructive surgery

Blood utilization in patients with burn injury and association with clinical outcomes (CME)

Uncontrolled bleeding is an important cause of increased transfusion in burn victims; however, description of blood utilization patterns in the burn population is lacking

Neurodevelopmental Outcomes of Children following in Utero Exposure to Zika in Nicaragua

Background: Neurodevelopmental outcomes of asymptomatic children exposed to Zika virus (ZIKV) in utero are not well characterized. Methods: We prospectively followed 129 newborns without evidence of congenital Zika syndrome (CZS) up to 24 months of age. Participants were classified as ZIKV exposed or ZIKV unexposed. The Mullen Scales of Early Learning (MSEL) was administered in the participants' homes at 6, 12, 15, 18, 21, and 24 months of age by trained psychologists. Sociodemographic data, medical history, and infant anthropometry at birth were collected at each home visit. Our primary outcome was the Mullen Early Learning Composite Score (ECL) at 24 months of age between our 2 exposure groups. Secondary outcomes were differences in MSEL subscales over time and at 24 months. Results: Of 129 infants in whom exposure status could be ascertained, 32 (24.8%) met criteria for in utero ZIKV exposure and 97 (75.2%) did not. There were no differences in maternal age, maternal educational attainment, birthweight, or gestational age at birth between the 2 exposure groups. The adjusted means and standard errors (SEs) for the ELC score between the ZIKV-exposed children compared to ZIKV-unexposed children were 91.4 (SE, 3.1) vs 96.8 (SE, 2.4) at 12 months and 93.3 (SE, 2.9) vs 95.9 (SE, 2.3) at 24 months. In a longitudinal mixed model, infants born to mothers with an incident ZIKV infection (P =. 01) and low-birthweight infants (<2500 g) (P =. 006) had lower composite ECL scores. Conclusions: In this prospective cohort of children without CZS, children with in utero ZIKV exposure had lower neurocognitive scores at 24 months

Spanish meteor network : 2006 all-sky and video monitoring highlights

We previously reported [1] the first steps in the development of the SPanish Meteor Network (SPMN) by using innovative low-scan all-sky CCD cameras that are reaching +2/+3 meteor limiting magnitude [1]. During 2006 new progress has been made by setting up two additional all-sky CCD stations and three video stations in order to increase our atmospheric coverage of meteor and fireball activity [2]. During 2006, we have built the first cameras with (inner) rotating shutter in order to get measurements of meteor velocities. Additionally, for those all-sky CCD cameras still working without rotating shutter we have used video cameras for obtaining meteor velocities in the monitorized common fields. As a consequence of all this effort, valuable trajectory and orbital data of meteors and fireballs is being obtained. We focus here in a description of recorded activity of cometary meteor showers also including orbital information of one of the brightest fireballs observed last year. Particularly, we describe some Earth encounters with dense cometary meteoroid streams that can be useful for identifying a likely origin of recovered Interplanetary Dust Particles (IDPs)

Analysis of the September ∈-Perseid outburst in 2013

We analyse the outburst experienced by the September ∈-Perseid meteor shower on 2013 September 9. As a result of our monitoring, the atmospheric trajectory of 60 multistation events observed over Spain was obtained and accurate orbital data were derived from them. On the basis of these orbits, we have tried to determine the likely parent body of this meteoroid stream by employing orbital dissimilarity criteria. In addition, the emission spectra produced by two events belonging to this meteor shower were also recorded. The analysis of these spectra has provided information about the chemical nature of their progenitor meteoroids. We also present an estimation of the tensile strength for these particles.© 2018 The Author(s).We acknowledge support from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (projects AYA2015-68646-P and AYA 2015-67175-P).Peer Reviewe