Publications by authors named "S Lerma"
Background: Managing health care acquired and device-associated intracranial infections in young children can be challenging given adverse antibiotic side effects and difficulties in achieving adequate central nervous system (CNS) antibiotic concentrations. Ceftaroline is a cephalosporin with a favorable safety profile and activity against methicillin-resistant Staphylococci and several Gram-negative organisms. Published data on the use of ceftaroline for CNS infections in children and adults are limited.
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- - Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, the CDC adapted its existing surveillance system to monitor cases and deaths efficiently, implementing a new aggregate case surveillance system for quicker data collection and emergency response.
- - This new system enabled the CDC to gather and analyze COVID-19 data at national, state, and county levels, using innovative methods like web scraping and algorithms to streamline data accuracy and validation.
- - The review emphasizes the importance of having a robust aggregate surveillance system ready for future health emergencies, providing near-real-time data to enhance response efforts beyond traditional individual case reporting.
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- - During the COVID-19 pandemic, the CDC implemented an aggregate case and death surveillance (ACS) system to effectively track cumulative COVID-19 data, supplementing traditional reporting methods.
- - As public health jurisdictions updated their historical data, the CDC developed a manual process for updating the ACS dataset to improve the accuracy of reported case and death numbers.
- - By March 2022, the CDC began integrating data from three jurisdictions via application programming interfaces (APIs), which streamline data transfer and may enhance emergency response efficiency moving forward.
Objectives: We aimed to describe persistent symptoms and sequelae in patients with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMD) after admission owing to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), assessing the role of autoimmune rheumatic diseases (ARDs) compared with non-autoimmune rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (NARDs) on persistent symptoms and sequelae.
Methods: We performed an observational study including RMD patients who attended a rheumatology clinic in Madrid and required admission owing to COVID-19 (between March and May 2020) and survived. The study began at discharge and ran until October 2020.
Background: Cerebral Palsy (CP) is the most common cause of permanent serious physical disability in childhood. Although many platforms have been developed, so far there are still not precise guidelines for the rehabilitation of the population with CP. The CPWalker is a robotic platform for the rehabilitation of children with CP, through which they can start experiencing autonomous locomotion in the rehabilitation environment.
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