Assessing the impact of investigators’ work: beyond impact factors Barbara Gastel Editorials Pages: 941 - 945
Experimental pre-emptive analgesia: what value for the clinician? Pierre Beaulieu Editorials Pages: 946 - 952
Academic anesthesiologists’ views on the importance of the impact factor of scientific journals: a North American and European survey Argyro FassoulakiConstantine SarantopoulosAikaterini Melemeni OriginalPaper Pages: 953 - 957
Values of the bispectral index do not parallel the hemodynamic response to the rapid increase in isoflurane concentration Masayasu NakayamaMichiko HayashiAkiyoshi Namiki OriginalPaper Pages: 958 - 962
Flumazenil improves cognitive and neuromotor emergence and attenuates shivering after halothane-, enflurane- and isoflurane-based anesthesia Avi A. WeinbroumEran Geller OriginalPaper Pages: 963 - 972
Low-dose dexamethasone effectively prevents postoperative nausea and vomiting after ambulatory laparoscopic surgery Jeng-Chai HuangJa-Ping ShiehJhi-Joung Wang OriginalPaper Pages: 973 - 977
Postoperative analgesia is not different after local vs systemic administration of meloxicam in patients undergoing inguinal hernia repair Janne RømsingSteffen MysagerDoris Østergaard OriginalPaper Pages: 978 - 984
In rabbits, landiolol, a new ultra-short-acting β-blocker, exerts a more potent negative chronotropic effect and less effect on blood pressure than esmolol Junichi SasaoStephen D. TarverHiroshi Goto OriginalPaper Pages: 985 - 989
Best evidence in anesthetic practice Prevention: Intraoperative neuraxial blockade reduces some postoperative complications Sugantha GanapathyD. Norman Buckley OriginalPaper Pages: 990 - 992
Intrathecal pre-administration of fentanyl effectively suppresses formalin evoked c-Fos expression in spinal cord of rat Tadashi NakamuraMayumi Takasaki OriginalPaper Pages: 993 - 999
Preemptive analgesia I: physiological pathways and pharmacological modalities Dermot J. KellyMahmood AhmadSorin J. Brull OriginalPaper Pages: 1000 - 1010
Hepatosplanchnic oxygenation is better preserved during mild hypothermic than during normothermic cardiopulmonary bypass Nobuhiro OkanoHaruhiko HiraokaToshihiro Morita OriginalPaper Pages: 1011 - 1014
The intubating laryngeal mask airway in severe ankylosing spondylitis Pao-Ping LuJoseph BrimacombeHung-Pin Liu OriginalPaper Pages: 1015 - 1019
Asymptomatic lingual tonsillar hypertrophy and difficult airway management: a report of three cases Sharon DaviesChidambaram AnanthanarayanCarmencita Castro OriginalPaper Pages: 1020 - 1024
Case report: A normal capnogram despite esophageal intubation Takashi AsaiKoh Shingu OriginalPaper Pages: 1025 - 1028
Changes in cerebral blood flow velocity elicited by surgical stimulation are dependent on the PaCO2 level Ryuichi KawataMishiya MatsumotoTakefumi Sakabe OriginalPaper Pages: 1029 - 1033
S(+)-ketamine/propofol maintain dynamic cerebrovascular autoregulation in humans Kristin EngelhardChristian WernerEberhard Kochs OriginalPaper Pages: 1034 - 1039
L’insufflation trachéale de gaz permet d’éviter l’hypercapnie chez le traumatisé crânien grave avec syndrome de détresse respiratoire aiguë A. ChomelJ. C. CombesM. Freysz OriginalPaper Pages: 1040 - 1044
Management of the ‘anesthetized but cannot-ventilate’ situation Jae-Hyon Bahk Correspondence Pages: 1047 - 1047
An unusual solution to unsuspected difficult airway: the esophageal dilator guide Amitabh DuttaY. K. BatraPramila Chari Correspondence Pages: 1048 - 1049
Special challenges with new digital anesthesia machines Richard N. Merchant Correspondence Pages: 1049 - 1049
