Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d'anesthésie

Guest reviewers and translator 1 July, 2003 to 30 June, 2004

Postoperative cognitive dysfunction: aprotinin, bleeding and cognitive testing

John M. Murkin

Changing practice in airway management: are we there yet?

Orlando Hung, Michael Murphy

A high initial VAS score and sedation afteriv morphine titration are associated with the need for rescue analgesia

Frédéric Aubrun, Olga Hrazdilova, Olivier Langeron, Pierre Coriat, Bruno Riou

Non-narcotic adjuvants may improve the duration and quality of analgesia after knee arthroscopy: a brief review

Silviu Brill, Miguel Plaza

The vascular relaxing effects of sevoflurane and isoflurane are more important in hypertensive than in normotensive rats

Jingui Yu, Koji Ogawa, Yasuyuki Tokinaga, Shizue Iwahashi, Yoshio Hatano

Preemptive gabapentin decreases postoperative pain after lumbar discoidectomy

Chandra Kant Pandey, Surabhi Sahay, Devendra Gupta, Sushil Prakash Ambesh, Ram Badan Singh, Mehdi Raza, Uttam Singh, Prabhat Kumar Singh

A new guidance device facilitates percutaneous puncture of the foramen ovale in human cadavers

Martin Hinteregger, Fritz Zschiegner, Philipp Lirk, Eugen Ladner, Albert Goeschl, Othmar Gaber, Patrizia Moser, Ingo Lorenz, Christian Kolbitsch

Spinal anesthesia for Cesarean section in a parturient with long QT syndrome

Abdulrahman Al-Refai, Vit Gunka, Joanne Douglas

The Microcuff™ tube allows a longer time interval until unsafe cuff pressures are reached in children

Alexander Dullenkopf, Andreas Gerber, Markus Weiss

Aprotinin decreases the incidence of cognitive deficit following CABG and cardiopulmonary bypass: A pilot randomized controlled study

Dominic C. Harmon, Kamran G. Ghori, Nicholas P. Eustace, Sheila J. F. O’Callaghan, Aonghus P. O’Donnell, George D. Shorten

Images in Anesthesia: Accidental knot formation of a pulmonary artery catheter

Tomohiro Matsuda, Satoki Inoue, Sha Keiichi, Hitoshi Furuya

Isoflurane preserves central nervous system blood flow during intraoperative cardiac tamponade in dogs

George J. Crystal, Ahmed A. Metwally, M. Ramez Salem

Use of the Laryngeal Tube™ in two unexpected difficult airway situations: lingual tonsillar hyperplasia and morbid obesity

Adrian A. Matioc, John Olson

Emergency gum elastic bougie-assisted tracheal intubation in four patients with upper airway distortion

Xavier Combes, Marc Dumerat, Gilles Dhonneur

Central dexmedetomidine attenuates cardiac dysfunction in a rodent model of intracranial hypertension

Sean R. R. Hall, Louie Wang, Brian Milne, Murray Hong

DNR directives are established early in mechanically ventilated intensive care unit patients

Tasnim Sinuff, Deborah J. Cook, Graeme M. Rocker, Lauren E. Griffith, Stephen D. Walter, Malcolm M. Fisher, Peter M. Dodek, Peter Sjokvist, Ellen McDonald, John C. Marshall, Peter A. Kraus, Mitchell M. Levy, Neil M. Lazar, Gordon H. Guyatt

Best evidence in critical care medicine Treatment: Vasodilatation with nitroprusside in symptomatic patients with severe aortic stenosis and congestive heart failure improves cardiac index

Neil M. Skjodt, Derek R. Townsend

Blood product use during orthotopic liver transplantation

W. Li Pi Shan, Jeffrey Barkun, Peter Metrakos, Jean Tchervenkov, Steven B. Backman

Knotting of a peripherally inserted central catheter

Vinanti Cherian, Mohammad Faheem

Pretreatment with flurbiprofen axetil and venous occlusion to reduce pain during injection of propofol

Yoshitaka Fujii

Optimal dose range of epidural naloxone to reduce nausea in patients receiving epidural morphine

Eun Sung Kim, Jaemin Lee, Jong Ho Choi

Central neural blockade in Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease

Hubert J. Schmitt, Tino Muenster, Joachim Schmidt

Dural sinus thrombosis in a late preeclamptic woman

Antoni Arxer, Berta Pardina, Itziar Blas, Lluís Ramió, Antonio Villalonga

Planned lightwand intubation in a patient with a known difficult airway

Felice Agrò, Alessandra Totonelli, Stefano Gherardi

Lightwand intubation can improve airway management

Yoshitaka Inoue

Another cause of obstruction of the endotracheal tube during laparoscopic cholecystectomy

Rajesh Mahajan, Yatindera Kumar Batra, Sushil Kumar

Migration of the endotracheal tube during laparoscopy-assisted abdominal surgery in young and elderly patients

Kohki Nishikawa, Chisaki Nagashima, Yuki Shimodate, Motohiko Igarashi, Akiyoshi Namiki

In collaboration with the Canadian Anesthesiologists’ Society, the Canadian Journal of Anesthesia is proud to publish the best abstracts presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Anesthesiologists’ Society held in Quebec City, Quebec, June 18–22, 2004

David C. Campbell, Terrance W. Breen, Stephen Halpern, Holly Muir, Robert Nunn, H. Yang, K. Raymer, R. Butler, J. Parlow, R. Roberts, Rita Katznelson, Keyvan Karkouti, Mohammed Ghannam, Esam Abdelnaem, Jo Carroll, Stuart McCluskey, Terrence M. Yau, Jacek Karski, Gregory M. T. Hare, C. David Mazer, Xiamao Li, Rong Qu, May S. M. Cheung, Carla Coackley, Andrew J. Baker, Michael Ronayne, Dajun Song, Frances Chung, Barnaby Ward, Suntheralingam Yogendran, Carolyn Sibbick, Tejinder S. Chhina, Harry Lapierre, Zane S. Jackson, Howard M. Leong-Poi, Jerome M. Teitel, David A. Latter, Bradley H. Strauss, Peter L. Gross, C. David Mazer, Kong E. You-Ten, Valerie B. Caraiscos, Erin M. Elliot, Victor Y. Cheng, John F. MacDonald, Beverley A. Orsera, Richard Brail, Colin J. L. McCartney, Sherif Abbas, Hugo Nova, Regan Rawson, Vincent W. S. Chan, Joel Katz, Brent Graham, Dimitri Anastakis, Herbert von Schroeder