Let the right one in: High admission rate for low-acuity pediatric burns.

Background: The purpose of this study was to characterize emergency pediatric burn care triage at a tertiary children's hospital to identify targets for quality improvement.

Methods: A retrospective review of patients <18 years with primary burn injuries who presented to a children's emergency department in 2016 was conducted. Demographic and injury characteristics were recorded.

Adherence to the Pediatric Preinduction Checklist Is Improved When Parents Are Engaged in Performing the Checklist.

Background: The World Health Organization recommends including the parents in completion of the pediatric surgical safety checklist. At our hospital, the preinduction surgical safety checklist is conducted in the preoperative holding with anesthesia, nursing, and often with the parents of children undergoing an operative procedure. We hypothesized that adherence to the preinduction checklist is better when parents are engaged in surgical safety checklist performance.

Junk food diet-induced obesity increases D2 receptor autoinhibition in the ventral tegmental area and reduces ethanol drinking.

Similar to drugs of abuse, the hedonic value of food is mediated, at least in part, by the mesostriatal dopamine (DA) system. Prolonged intake of either high calorie diets or drugs of abuse both lead to a blunting of the DA system. Most studies have focused on DAergic alterations in the striatum, but little is known about the effects of high calorie diets on ventral tegmental area (VTA) DA neurons.