Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d'anesthésie

Infection after central neuraxial block

Kari G. Smedstad

Refusal of treatment and moral compromise

David J. McKnight, George C. Webster

Chronic pain

Ellen N. Thompson

Heart rate changes in cardiac transplant patients and in the denervated cat heart after edrophonium

Steven B. Backman, Reuben D. Stein, Gordon S. Fox, Canio Polosa

Patient attitudes regarding pca and associated costs

Neal H. Badner, Wendy E. Komar, Rosemary A. Craen

Lidocaine tape relieves pain due to needle insertion during stellate ganglion block

Takefumi Inada, Fumihiko Uesugi, Shoji Kawachi, Kohso Inada

Clonidine at induction reduces shivering after general anaesthesia

Donal Buggy, Patrick Higgins, Ciaran Moran, Frances O’Donovan, Maire McCarroll

Oral clonidine premedication decreases energy expenditure in human volunteers

Hiroshi Takahashi, Toshiaki Nishikawa, Taro Mizutani, Fumi Handa

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Prophylactic antiemetic efficacy of granisetron in patients with and without previous postoperative emesis

Yoshitaka Fujii, Hiroyoshi Tanaka, Hidenori Toyooka

Gastric fluid volume in infants for pyloromyotomy

Scott D. Cook-Sather, Heather V. Tulloch, Chris A. Liacouras, Mark S. Schreiner

Perioperative anaesthetic considerations for patients undergoing lung transplantation

Harbhej Singh, Robert F. Bossard

Epidural abscess after combined spinal-epidural block

Jens Schröter, Djamba wa Djamba, Volker Hoffmann, Alfons Bach, Johann Motsch

Laryngeal mask airway in severe cervical ankylosis

Ray J. Défalque, Mary L. Hyder

Abdominal compartment syndrome

Scott T. Reeves, Mark L. Pinosky, T. Karl Byrne, E. Douglas Norcross

Neuropathies masquerading as an epidural complication

Larry Kahn

Ventricular perforation associated with central venous introducerdilator systems

J. M. Porter, R. Page, A. E. Wood, D. Phelan

Postoperative reparalysis after rocuronium following nebulized epinephrine

George A. Arndt, Tim Gerry, Patricia White

Critical care management of the obstetric patient

Stephen E. Lapinsky, Kristine Kruczynski, Gareth R. Seaward, Dan Farine, Ronald F. Grossman

Taping methods and tape types for securing oral endotracheal tubes

Nileshkumar Patel, Charles E. Smith, Alfred C. Pinchak, Donald E. Hancock

Jet ventilation in management of the difficult airway

Allan Gottschalk

Inserting Double-Lumen tubes

W. John Russell

Reply

Alfredo Panadero, Maria Jose Iribarren, Ignacio Fernandez-Liesa, Pablo Monedero

Pulmonary embolism and hydrogen peroxide

Christoph Konrad, Guido Schüpfer, Markus Wietlisbach, H. Gerber

Regional anaesthesia and reactive airway disease

Frederic J. Mercier, Herve Bouaziz, Dan Benhamou

Reply

Lesley M. Pinto Pereira

Maintaining ventilation through the Montgomery t-tube

A. A. Al-Kaisy, A. P. Kent, J. W. H. Watt

Book reviews

David Parsons, Richard M. Cooper, David A. E. Shephard, John G. Muir, M. Beriault

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