More Mock Tracers, a follow-up to the best-selling Mock Tracer Workbook, presents a new collection of practical, easy-to-understand instructions and exercises to help health care professionals conduct an effective tracer in any health care setting. Health care organizations can use tracers the way surveyors do -- to evaluate an individual's care or a specific care process as part of a system -- to examine their own systems and processes, identify unwanted trends, and implement changes as part of an ongoing improvement process.
Tracer methodology is the cornerstone of The Joint Commission on-site accreditation survey process. So what's the best way for health care professionals to learn about tracers? Practice. Even More Mock Tracers will help health care organizations use mock (practice) tracers to identify unrecognized compliance and patient safety issues and implement changes as part of an ongoing improvement process--before a survey takes place. This easy-to-follow practical tool offers a wealth of sample tracers, called scenarios. These address issues in all domestic and international program settings: hospital and critical access hospital, ambulatory care and office-based surgery, behavioral health care, home care, and long term care, and laboratory. An additional section contains scenarios focusing on the environment of care. Not only will the workbook help familiarize staff with all aspects of tracers, it will also serve as a resource and training tool for conducting mock tracers in any health care organization. Special Features: A 10-step tutorial on how to conduct mock tracers Sample tracer questions keyed to the tracer scenarios Worksheet template to help users develop their own mock tracers Examples of completed mock tracer worksheets
In the past few years, the number of applications of tracers for in vivo biomedical studies has greatly increased. New analytical tools at the genetic and protein levels have spurred this growth, opening the door for a deeper understanding of metabolic events. This in turn promises to yield significant advances in the understanding and treatment of human disease. Now fully revised and expanded, Isotope Tracers in Metabolic Research, Second Edition is the established definitive text on stable and radioactive isotope tracers. In unique, multidisciplinary fashion, it presents comprehensive coverage of new methodological, mathematical, and theoretical approaches. This new Second Edition includes: All-new chapters on nuclear magnetic resonance, mass isotopomer analysis, and methods of protein metabolism analysis A completely updated categorized list of over 750 references Major advances in the development of mass isotopomer and positional isotopomer techniques, noninvasive isotope techniques for studying metabolic pathways, hyphenated techniques, and new tracer techniques The latest developments in quantification of DNA synthesis and mass spectrometry spurred by genome sequencing and proteomics New coverage of mathematical modeling Expanded coverage of microdialysis probes, laboratory procedures, and regulatory issues related to human studies In this complete guide to performing tracer studies, the authors systematically cover tracer selection, modeling considerations, sample derivitization, mass spectrometry analysis, and data interpretation. Problems and discussion questions highlight key points in each chapter. Isotope Tracers in Metabolic Research, Second Edition offers students and researchers a comprehensive, practical resource for utilizing the latest tracer methodologies.
Scientific understanding of fluid flow in rock fracturesâ€"a process underlying contemporary earth science problems from the search for petroleum to the controversy over nuclear waste storageâ€"has grown significantly in the past 20 years. This volume presents a comprehensive report on the state of the field, with an interdisciplinary viewpoint, case studies of fracture sites, illustrations, conclusions, and research recommendations. The book addresses these questions: How can fractures that are significant hydraulic conductors be identified, located, and characterized? How do flow and transport occur in fracture systems? How can changes in fracture systems be predicted and controlled? Among other topics, the committee provides a geomechanical understanding of fracture formation, reviews methods for detecting subsurface fractures, and looks at the use of hydraulic and tracer tests to investigate fluid flow. The volume examines the state of conceptual and mathematical modeling, and it provides a useful framework for understanding the complexity of fracture changes that occur during fluid pumping and other engineering practices. With a practical and multidisciplinary outlook, this volume will be welcomed by geologists, petroleum geologists, geoengineers, geophysicists, hydrologists, researchers, educators and students in these fields, and public officials involved in geological projects.
This collection of papers is the proceedings of the 7th International Synosium on Water Tracing in Portoroz/Slovenia from 26-31 May 1997. They address a number of topics in hydrology tracing techniques including: protection of natural resources against pollution; the use of natural and artificial tracers to help to assess contaminant transport in surface waters; and aquifer parameters and modelling.
Apply Cisco networking theory to modern enterprise environments with 40+ hands-on, CCIE-level labs Enterprise networking has changed, and so have the Cisco certification paths. It's crucial for networking professionals to bridge the gap between their current knowledge and the deep hands-on expertise they need to succeed at the pinnacle of the profession. Now, renowned Cisco instructor and practitioner Narbik Kocharians helps you make the leap with confidence, whether you're preparing for your CCIE Labs or simply seeking to optimize your own network's reliability, agility, and performance. Based on Kocharians's widely admired CCIE prep classes, this progressive learning tool combines foundational topics with 40+ lab walkthroughs, revealing how mature technologies and today's increasingly critical software-defined and policy-based solutions fit together. You'll find detailed labs for widely-available emulators, structured illustrations of modern protocol and feature operation, a full lab walkthrough of a complex configuration reflective of the actual CCIE, and more. Every lab scenario includes full solutions and in-depth explanations: read these as you practice, or solve on your own, and compare your results with the author's. Either way, you'll gain indispensable insight for applying theory to practice in real-world environments---including your CCIE Labs. Master core Layer 2 switching concepts, including STP, RSTP, MSTP, VTP, VTP Pruning, 802.1Q, ISL Trunking, LACP, and PagP Master route filtering with IP Prefix-lists Gain a rock-solid understanding of RIPv2, the Cisco Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), and classic Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) routing Understand Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), the protocol that routes the Internet Review the Cisco Dynamic Multipoint VPN (DMVPN) from the ground up, overlays/underlays, configurations, switching enhancements, network design, tunneling, and more Master MPLS and the suite of services it can provide: L3VPNs and beyond Make the most of IPv6: master address types, assignment, configuration, NDP, SLAAC, and IPv6-enabled DMVPN, OSPFv3, EIGRP, and BGP Explore the Cisco latest SD-WAN platform, from basic components to WAN edge devices and app-aware Policies Understand the Cisco SD-Access (SDA) solution for creating scalable, automated, and resilient enterprise fabrics
Optimizing patient flow : advanced strategies for managing variability to enhance access, quality, and safety offers readers innovate techniques for maximizing patient flow and improving operations management while providing clear examples of successful impementation. This all-new book can help health care organizations to reduce and manage variability, thereby increasing the reliablity of systems and processes and improving health care quality and safety.
This book provides a contemporary reference to the science, technology and clinical applications of PET and PET/CT. The book is designed to be used by residents and fellows training in medical imaging specialties as well as imaging experts in private or academic practice who need to become familiar with this technology and its applications. It is also for use by those whose specialties carry over to PET and PET/CT, referring physicians such as oncologists, cardiologists, neurologists and surgeons. Developed as an offshoot/update of the "clinical practice" portion of the main book, edited by PE Valk et al, published in 2003 (Positron Emission Tomography: basic science and clinical practice), this offshoot covers the second half of the main book only, dealing with mainly the clinical research and practice. Most of the book comprises chapters updated from the "Clinical practice" portion of the main Valk book. It contains 6 brand new chapters and 22 completely revised and updated chapters from the main Valk book.
