Publications by authors named "M P Samper"
Reformulating real-time random safety analysis during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.
Med Intensiva (Engl Ed)
December 2024
Introduction: From a safety perspective, the pandemic imposed atypical work dynamics that led to noticeable gaps in clinical safety across all levels of health care.
Objectives: To verify that Real-Time Random Safety Analyses (AASTRE) are feasible and useful in a high-pressure care setting.
Design: Prospective study (January-September 2022).
Article Synopsis
- New technologies for managing type 1 diabetes (T1D) in young children are growing, but there’s a lack of real-life studies focused on kids under 6 years old.
- The study aimed to investigate parental satisfaction with continuous and flash glucose monitoring devices for T1D in children, involving 114 parents who completed a questionnaire.
- Results showed 95% of parents were satisfied with the monitoring devices, with satisfaction linked to the device's reliability, though some parents reported challenges related to applying the devices and skin reactions.
Nowadays, plastic contamination worldwide is a concerning reality that can be addressed with appropriate society education as well as looking for innovative polymeric alternatives based on the reuse of waste and recycling with a circular economy point of view, thus taking into consideration that a future world without plastic is quite impossible to conceive. In this regard, in this review, we focus on sustainable polymeric materials, biodegradable and bio-based polymers, additives, and micro/nanoparticles to be used to obtain new environmentally friendly polymeric-based materials. Although biodegradable polymers possess poorer overall properties than traditional ones, they have gained a huge interest in many industrial sectors due to their inherent biodegradability in natural environments.
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- Over the last decade, research has focused on how mechanical power contributes to ventilation-induced lung injury and its potential link to ICU mortality, but most studies have only looked at early mechanical ventilation data.
- This study analyzed mechanical power in patients ventilated for over 24 hours in a Spanish ICU, determining how prolonged exposure to high mechanical power impacts mortality rates and hospital stay duration.
- Researchers established that a mechanical power threshold of 18 J/min significantly correlates with increased ICU mortality; specifically, the risk of death rises by 0.1% for each additional hour patients are ventilated above this threshold.
Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic entailed confinement and elimination of face-to-face university classes in Spain. The Francisco de Vitoria University in Madrid (UFV by its Spanish acronym) implemented risk management systems to enable on-campus university activity to avoid a negative impact on students, teachers, and faculties.
Methods: A tracking/registry system was implemented to collect data, identify COVID-19-related cases, implement containment measures, and do follow-up in the UFV community (administration/services personnel [ASP], teaching/research personnel [TRP], and students), from September 2020 to April 2022.