1. Trial by media: the bupivacaine story

   • W. D. R. Writer
   • Jan M. Davies
   • Leo Strunin

   Editorial Pages: 1 - 4

2. Rate-pressure product correlates poorly with myocardial oxygen consumption during anaesthesia in coronary patients

   • Emerson A. Moffitt
   • Dhun H. Sethna
   • John A. Bussell

   OriginalPaper Pages: 5 - 12

3. Cardiovascular effects of nondepolarizing relaxants employed for pretreatment prior to succinylcholine

   • Bruce P. Kingsley
   • M. Sue Vaughan
   • Robert W. Vaughan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 13 - 19

4. Effect of age on epinephrine-induced arrhythmias during halothane anaesthesia in pigs

   • Chalapathi C. Rao
   • Stephen F. Dierdorf
   • Raymond R. Paradise

   OriginalPaper Pages: 20 - 23

5. Plasma cortisol levels in paediatric anaesthesia

   • Hidefumi Obara
   • Daisuke Sugiyama
   • Seizo Iwai

   OriginalPaper Pages: 24 - 27

6. Assessment of immediate post-anaesthetic recovery in young children following intravenous morphine infusions, halothane, and isoflurane

   • Herbert M. Chinyanga
   • Hilde Vandenberghe
   • Laszlo Endrenyi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 28 - 35

7. Effect of Cimetidine premedication on morphine-induced ventilatory depression

   • A. M. Lam
   • J. L. Clement

   OriginalPaper Pages: 36 - 43

8. Intravenous nitrogly-cerin administration during infrarenal aortic clamping

   • D. G. Bjoraker
   • P. R. Knight

   OriginalPaper Pages: 44 - 50

9. Anaesthetic considerations for microsurgical repair of limbs

   • T. M. Bird
   • Leo Strunin

   Review Article Pages: 51 - 60

10. Dantrolene

    • Beverley A. Britt

    Review Article Pages: 61 - 75

11. Illicit use of modern volatile anaesthetics

    • M. Yamashita
    • A. Matsuki
    • T. Oyama

    Brief Review Pages: 76 - 79

12. Uterine rupture associated with the use of vaginal Prostaglandin E₂ suppositories

    • Frank Keller
    • Thomas H. Joyce

    Clinical Reports Pages: 80 - 82

13. Isoflurane anaesthesia for a patient with long Q-T syndrome

    • Frederick J. Carlock
    • Morris Brown
    • Eli M. Brown

    OriginalPaper Pages: 83 - 85

14. Venous air embolism in a child undergoing posterior fossa craniotomy: a case report

    • Susan S. Porter
    • Robert C. Boyd
    • Maurice S. Albin

    OriginalPaper Pages: 86 - 90

15. In vivo response time of transcutaneous oxygen measurement to changes in inspired oxygen in normal adults

    • J. Tony Brown
    • Michael S, Schur
    • Enid R. Kafer

    Technical Communication Pages: 91 - 96

16. The anaesthetist and the head-injured patient

    • A. W. Gelb
    • P. H. Manninen
    • Q. J. Durward

    OriginalPaper Pages: 98 - 108

17. Self-assessment questions

    Announcement Pages: 109 - 109

18. Abstracts from the literature

    Abstract Pages: 110 - 111

19. Book reviews

    • Douglas B. Craig
    • B. Y Ong
    • J. R. Maltby

    BookReview Pages: 112 - 114

20. Postoperative malignant hyperthermia

    • Henry Rosenberg
    • Gerald A. Gronert

    Correspondence Pages: 115 - 116

21. Reply

    • R. Grinberg
    • G. Edelist
    • A. S. Gordon

    Correspondence Pages: 116 - 116

22. Intraoperative pulmonary tumour embolism during hepatectomy

    • Barbara J. Main
    • T. C. K. Brown
    • P. G. Jones

    Correspondence Pages: 117 - 117

23. Naloxone and its antagonism of anaesthesia and analgesia

    • M. A. Gillman

    Correspondence Pages: 117 - 118

24. Reply

    • E. Freye

    Correspondence Pages: 118 - 119

25. Nitrous oxide uptake in man

    • P. C. W. Beatty
    • B. Kay
    • T. E. J. Healey

    Correspondence Pages: 119 - 120

26. Patient-controlled analgesia

    • Brian Kay

    Correspondence Pages: 120 - 121

27. Patient-controlled analgesia

    • M. Keeri-Szanto

    Correspondence Pages: 121 - 122

28. Reply

    • J. S. Sprigge
    • P. E. Otton

    Correspondence Pages: 122 - 122