COVID-19 infection in symptomatic pregnant women at the midpoint of the pandemic in Spain: a retrospective analysis

Objectives: Determine the strengths and weakness of a symptomatic screening for COVID-19 in pregnant women. Analyzethe clinical presentation, management, and outcomes. Design: Descriptive retrospective observational study. Setting:Mancha-Centro Hospital (Spain).Material and methods: Population: Symptomatic pregnant women with confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19. Between the 12thof March and 17th of April 2020, all the symptomatic pregnancies were screened with diagnostic test for SARS-CoV-2. Datacollection was done by reviewing the medical records and telephone interviews. Main outcome measures: Clinical characteristics,management, treatment, and obstetric and neonatal outcomes.Results: Twenty patients with positive COVID-19 diagnostic test out of thirty-four suspected. The most common symptomswere fever (70%), cough (65%) and myalgia (35%). A unique symptom of presentation in 20% of cases. COVID-19 pneumoniawas diagnosed in 30% by chest X-ray and one case had pulmonary embolism associated diagnosed by CT-Scan. Thromboprophylaxiswas indicated in 16 out of 20 patients. Eight women finished their pregnancy during the observation period.Type of birth: 25% natural birth, 12.5% assisted vaginal delivery and 62.5% caesarean section. We had three severe cases,two of them with intensive care support. All neonates had negative test for COVID 19 infection.Conclusions: We recommend universal screening of all pregnant woman for COVID-19 during the pandemic because ofthe limits of the symptomatic screening seen in this studio and the ratio of asymptomatic pregnancies with positive testfor COVID-19 recently published

Survey of Visual and Force/Tactile Control of Robots for Physical Interaction in Spain

Sensors provide robotic systems with the information required to perceive the changes that happen in unstructured environments and modify their actions accordingly. The robotic controllers which process and analyze this sensory information are usually based on three types of sensors (visual, force/torque and tactile) which identify the most widespread robotic control strategies: visual servoing control, force control and tactile control. This paper presents a detailed review on the sensor architectures, algorithmic techniques and applications which have been developed by Spanish researchers in order to implement these mono-sensor and multi-sensor controllers which combine several sensors

A new method for load matching in multimode microwave feating applicators based on the use of dielectric layer superposition

Usage of a dielectric multilayer around a dielectric Sample is studied as a means for improving the efficiency in multimode microwave- heating cavities. The results show that by using additional dielectric constant layers the appearance of undesired reflections at the sample-air interface is avoided and higher power -absorption rates within the sample and high -efficiency designs are obtaine