1. The McCoy laryngoscope in infants and children

   • Éamon McCoy

   Editorials Pages: 101 - 105

2. L’intubation trachéale hors du bloc opératoire

   • Pascal Labrecque

   Editorials Pages: 106 - 110

3. Drinking 300 mL of clear fluid two hours before surgery has no effect on gastric fluid volume and pH in fasting and non-fasting obese patients

   • J. Roger Maltby
   • Saul Pytka
   • Gordon H. Fick

   General Anesthesia Pages: 111 - 115

4. Comparison of phonomyography with balloon pressure mechanomyography to measure contractile force at the corrugator supercilii muscle

   • Thomas M. Hemmerling
   • Guillaume Michaud
   • François Donati

   General Anesthesia Pages: 116 - 121

5. Le rémifentanil est une alternative efficace au propofol pour l’analgésie auto-contrôlée en endoscopie digestive

   • Lionel Bouvet
   • Bernard Allaouchiche
   • Emmanuel Boselli

   General Anesthesia Pages: 122 - 125

6. Clear hydro-gel, compared to ointment, provides improved eye comfort after brief surgery

   • Michaela Smolle
   • Christian Keller
   • Philipp Lirk

   General Anesthesia Pages: 126 - 129

7. Vein pretreatment with magnesium sulfate to prevent pain on injection of propofol is not justified

   • Anil Agarwal
   • Sanjay Dhiraj
   • Devendra Gupta

   General Anesthesia Pages: 130 - 133

8. Pheochromocytoma and pregnancy: a case report and review of anesthetic management

   • Geoff Dugas
   • John Fuller
   • James Watson

   Obstetrical and Pediatric Anesthesia Pages: 134 - 138

9. Amniotic fluid embolism with second trimester pregnancy termination: a case report

   • Barry K. Ray
   • Manuel C. Vallejo
   • Sivam Ramanathan

   Obstetrical and Pediatric Anesthesia Pages: 139 - 144

10. The cocaine abusing parturient: a review of anesthetic considerations

    • Krzysztof M. Kuczkowski

    Obstetrical and Pediatric Anesthesia Pages: 145 - 154

11. The McCoy straight blade does not improve laryngoscopy and intubation in normal infants

    • Gabriella Iohom
    • Robert Franklin
    • Barry Lyons

    Obstetrical and Pediatric Anesthesia Pages: 155 - 159

12. The distance from the skin to the subarachnoid space can be predicted in premature and formerpremature infants

    • Ze’ev Shenkman
    • Valeria Rathaus
    • Enrique Freud

    Obstetrical and Pediatric Anesthesia Pages: 160 - 162

13. Ultra-fast-track anesthesia in off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting: a prospective audit comparing opioid-based anesthesia vs thoracic epiduralbased anesthesia

    • Thomas M. Hemmerling
    • Ignatio Prieto
    • Joanne D. Fortier

    Cardiothoracic Anesthesia, Respiration and Airway Pages: 163 - 168

14. Vasopressin for treatment of shock following aprotinin administration

    • Stephan R. Williams
    • André Y. Denault
    • Raymond Martineau

    Cardiothoracic Anesthesia, Respiration and Airway Pages: 169 - 172

15. Images in Anesthesia: A right atrial foreign body

    • Lei Yao
    • Anna Maria Veytsman
    • M. Saeed Dhamee

    Cardiothoracic Anesthesia, Respiration and Airway Pages: 173 - 173

16. Acute airway management in the emergency department by non-anesthesiologists

    • George Kovacs
    • J. Adam Law
    • Chris Soder

    Cardiothoracic Anesthesia, Respiration and Airway Pages: 174 - 180

17. The callander laryngoscope blade modification is associated with a decreased risk of dental contact

    • Jaemin Lee
    • Jong H. Choi
    • Randolph H. Hastings

    Cardiothoracic Anesthesia, Respiration and Airway Pages: 181 - 184

18. Incident with a Baxter AS40A syringe pump: vigilance is warranted

    • Chris Christodoulou
    • Steven Dain

    Correspondence Pages: 185 - 186

19. Pressure alopecia in living donors for liver transplantation

    • Toshiya Tomioka
    • Masakazu Hayashida
    • Kazuo Hanaoka

    Correspondence Pages: 186 - 187

20. The relaxing effect of negative air ions on ambulatory surgery patients

    • Hiroshi Iwama
    • Hiroshi Ohmizo
    • Shinju Obara

    Correspondence Pages: 187 - 188

21. Clonidine attenuates the hemodynamic responses to hypercapnia during propofol anesthesia

    • Masayoshi Uchida
    • Hiroki Iida
    • Shuji Dohi

    Correspondence Pages: 188 - 189

22. The early detection of bupivacaine toxicity in dogs

    • Marc Freysz
    • François Lenfant

    Correspondence Pages: 189 - 189

23. Reply

    • Jin-Tae Kim
    • Kook-Hyun Lee

    Correspondence Pages: 189 - 190

24. Intrathecal morphine vs psoas compartment block for hip surgery

    • Kate Paterson
    • Joerg Kuehne

    Correspondence Pages: 190 - 190

25. Reply

    • Vincent Souron

    Correspondence Pages: 190 - 191

26. The infraclavicular block is a useful technique for emergency upper extremity analgesia

    • Régis Fuzier
    • Valérie Fuzier
    • Michel Olivier

    Correspondence Pages: 191 - 192

27. What do we do with a disconnected epidural catheter? — A response

    • Shaul Cohen
    • Ashraf Sakr
    • Ehab Sakr

    Correspondence Pages: 192 - 192

28. Destruction of the LMA-ProSeal™ with the Red Plug during steam autoclaving

    • Donald T. Jolly
    • Armando Escalona
    • Donna Clarke

    Correspondence Pages: 193 - 193

29. Use of the OxyArm™ in a patient suffering from trigeminal neuralgia

    • Takashi Noguchi
    • Yousuke Shiga
    • Kazunori Koga

    Correspondence Pages: 193 - 194

30. Book & new media reviews

    • Brian Knight
    • A. John Clark
    • Jean-Francois Courval

    BookReview Pages: 195 - 196