Climate vulnerability assessment for Pacific salmon and steelhead in the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem.

Major ecological realignments are already occurring in response to climate change. To be successful, conservation strategies now need to account for geographical patterns in traits sensitive to climate change, as well as climate threats to species-level diversity. As part of an effort to provide such information, we conducted a climate vulnerability assessment that included all anadromous Pacific salmon and steelhead (Oncorhynchus spp.

Practical Applications in Radiography Education.

This article describes practical and innovative approaches in radiography education, including active learning strategies, technological tools such as virtual anatomical models and clinical simulators, and reflective writing exercises. It also discusses ways to foster professionalism and lifelong learning in radiography students.

Collaborative Concept Mapping in an Image Evaluation Course: A Pilot Study.

Purpose: To evaluate student perceptions of collaborative concept mapping exercises in an image acquisition and technical evaluation course.

Methods: First-year radiologic technology students worked collaboratively throughout the semester to create concept maps for receptor exposure, contrast, spatial resolution, and distortion. They completed a survey at the end of the course that detailed whether the maps were helpful for learning and understanding the content.

The Afferent Limb of Rapid Response Systems: Continuous Monitoring on General Care Units.

The prevention of adverse events continues to be the focus of patient safety work. Although rapid response systems have improved the efferent limb of the patient's rescue, the detection of the patient's deterioration (the afferent limb) has not been solved. This article provides an overview of the complex issues surrounding patient surveillance by addressing the principal considerations of continuous monitoring as they relate to implementation, choice of sensors and physiologic variables, notification, and alarm balancing, as well as future research opportunities.

High-level alerting for rare but critical clinical conditions.

We describe our efforts to switch from free-text documentation of a difficult airway in the patient allergy list to a field-defined entry prominently displayed in the electronic record. A survey of relevant physicians' preferred methods of documentation will facilitate clinically useful methods of alerting providers to critical conditions in their patients.

Characterizing novice behavior associated with learning ultrasound-guided peripheral regional anesthesia.

Background And Objectives: Ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia is a rapidly growing field. There exists little information regarding the competencies involved with such a practice. The objective of this exploratory study was to characterize the behavior of novices as they undertook the challenges of learning a new technique.