Association of Women Surgeons' Comprehensive Initiative for Healthy Surgical Families During Residency and Fellowship Training.

Importance: The lack of family-friendly policies continues to contribute to the underrepresentation and attrition of surgical trainees. Women in surgery face unique challenges in balancing surgical education with personal and family needs.

Observations: The Association of Women Surgeons is committed to supporting surgical families and developing equitable family-friendly guidelines.

Disparities affecting incarcerated burn-injured patients: Insight from the National Burn Repository.

Objective: Incarcerated patients are a vulnerable population and little is known regarding the epidemiology of burn injury and subsequent outcomes. This study utilizes a national database to assess disparities in care affecting this understudied population.

Methods: The National Burn Repository was queried for adult patients discharged into custody.

Firefighter Postinjury Return to Work: A Balance of Dedication and Obligation.

Firefighters are at significant risk for burn injuries. Most are minor and do not significantly affect ability to work in full capacity, but there exists risk for both short- and long-term incapacitation. Many push for earlier return to work than is medically advisable.

Burn Injuries in Patients with Paralysis: A National Perspective on Injury Patterns and Outcomes.

The affect of paralysis-related comorbidities on outcomes in burn-injured patients has not been explored. We hypothesize that comorbid paralysis is associated with increased morbidity in this population. All burned patients with prior diagnoses of paralysis were identified from the National Burn Repository (Version 8.

Patient and social characteristics contributing to disparities in outcomes after burn injury: application of database research to minority health in the burn population.

Background: Although racial disparities have been well described in trauma and medical literature, less is known about disparities in the burn population, especially the Native American, Hispanic, Black, and Asian minority groups. This study seeks to identify at-risk populations for differences in patient and social characteristics that may link certain race groups to disparate burn outcomes.

Methods: Data was reviewed from the National Burn Repository.

Effectiveness of a Glycylcycline Antibiotic for Reducing the Pathogenicity of Superantigen-Producing Methicillin-Resistant in Burn Wounds.

: Burn-injured patients are highly susceptible to infectious complications, which are often associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Rates of antibiotic resistance have increased, and resistant species such as methicillin-resistant provide additional challenges in the form of virulence factors. Proteins can disrupt local healing, leading to systemic immune disruption.

Graft loss: Review of a single burn center's experience and proposal of a graft loss grading scale.

Background: There exists neither a consensus definition of burn "graft loss" nor a scale with which to grade severity. We introduced an institutional scale in 2014 for quality improvement.

Materials And Methods: We reviewed all burned patients with graft loss on departmental Morbidity and Mortality reports between July 2014 and July 2016.

A National Perspective on ECMO Utilization Use in Patients with Burn Injury.

Extracorporeal membranous oxygenation (ECMO) has become an increasingly utilized used strategy to support patients in cardiac and cardiopulmonary failure. The Extracorporeal Life Support Organization reports adult survival rates between 40 and 50%. Utilization Use and outcomes for burned patients undergoing ECMO are poorly understood.

Thoracoscopic placement of phrenic nerve pacers for diaphragm pacing in congenital central hypoventilation syndrome.

Purpose: Congenital central hypoventilation syndrome (CCHS), or Ondine's curse, is a rare disorder affecting central respiratory drive. Patients with this disorder fail to ventilate adequately and require lifelong ventilatory support. Diaphragm pacing is a form of ventilatory support which can improve mobility and/or remove the tracheostomy from CCHS patients.

Sigmoid perforation and bucket-handle tear of the mesocolon after bicycle handlebar injury: a case report and review of the literature.

We describe an unusual case of sigmoid colon perforation secondary to a bicycle handlebar injury. Because the patient presented 2 days after the initial injury, we suspected that the colon perforation was not the immediate result of the bicycle accident but, rather, was secondary to devascularization. At operation, we found a bucket-handle tear of the colonic mesentery, which was the patient's primary injury and cause of the perforated colon.