1. Anesthesia physician resources — time to change the focus

   • Neil Donen
   • Jean -François Hardy

   Editorials Pages: 1 - 7

2. Recombinant factor VIIa: how safeis the stuff?

   • Harold R. Roberts

   Editorial Pages: 8 - 11

3. Regional analgesia and ultra-fast-track cardiac anesthesia

   • Davy C. H. Cheng

   Editorial Pages: 12 - 17

4. A demand-based assessment of the Canadian anesthesia workforce — 2002 through 2007

   • Dale A. Engen
   • Gordon H. Morewood
   • Louie Wang

   General Anesthesia Pages: 18 - 25

5. FVIIa corrects the coagulopathy of fulminant hepatic failure but may be associated with thrombosis: A report of four cases

   • Patricia Pavese
   • Agnès Bonadona
   • Didier Barnoud

   General Anesthesia Pages: 26 - 29

6. Perioperative platelet transfusion: recommendations of the Agence française de sécurité sanitaire des produits de santé (AFSSaPS) 2003

   • Charles Marc Samama
   • Rachid Djoudi
   • AFSSAPS Expert Group

   OriginalPaper Pages: 30 - 37

7. Xenon does not reduce opioid requirement for orthopedic surgery

   • Martin Luginbühl
   • Steen Petersen-Felix
   • Thomas W. Schnider

   General Anesthesia Pages: 38 - 44

8. Vital capacity and patient controlled sevoflurane inhalation result in similar induction characteristics

   • Suntheralingam Yogendran
   • Atul Prabhu
   • Frances Chung

   General Anesthesia Pages: 45 - 49

9. A priming technique accelerates onset of neuromuscular blockade at the laryngeal adductor muscles

   • Joachim Schmidt
   • Andrea Irouschek
   • Sven Albrecht

   General Anesthesia Pages: 50 - 54

10. Prophylactic Diclectin® reduces the incidence of postoperative vomiting

    • Brenda K. Reeve
    • Deborah J. Cook
    • D. Norman Buckley

    General Anesthesia Pages: 55 - 61

11. Nerve stimulator guided pudendal nerve block decreases posthemorrhoidectomy pain

    • Zouheir Naja
    • Mohammad Fouad Ziade
    • Per -Arne Lönnqvist

    Regional Anesthesia and Pain Pages: 62 - 68

12. Needle placement and injection posterior to the axillary artery may predict successful infraclavicular brachial plexus block: a report of three cases

    • Jennifer M. Porter
    • Colin J. L. McCartney
    • Vincent W. S. Chan

    Regional Anesthesia and Pain Pages: 69 - 73

13. Failed spinal anesthesia after a psoas compartment block

    • Scott A. Lang
    • Chris Prusinkiewicz
    • Ban C. H. Tsui

    Regional Anesthesia and Pain Pages: 74 - 78

14. In Memoriam Jack Rolf Vanderburghmd frcp(c)

    • Robert W. Lamont

    Announcement Pages: 78 - 78

15. Cerebral near-infrared spectroscopy in adult heart surgery: systematic review of its clinical efficacy

    • Marie -Christine Taillefer
    • André Y. Denault

    Cardiothoracic Anesthesia, Respiration and Airway Pages: 79 - 87

16. Prolonged (more than ten hours) neuromuscular blockade after cardiac surgery: report of two cases

    • Lori Olivieri
    • Gilles Plourde

    Cardiothoracic Anesthesia, Respiration and Airway Pages: 88 - 93

17. Low dose intrathecal morphine facilitates early extubation after cardiac surgery: results of a retrospective continuous quality improvement audit

    • Joel L. Parlow
    • R. Geoffrey Steele
    • Deirdre O’Reilly

    Cardiothoracic Anesthesia, Respiration and Airway Pages: 94 - 99

18. The “BURP” maneuver worsens the glottic view when applied in combination with cricoid pressure

    • Douglas D. Snider
    • Donna Clarke
    • Brendan T. Finucane

    Cardiothoracic Anesthesia, Respiration and Airway Pages: 100 - 104

19. The StyletScope™ is a better intubation tool than a conventional stylet during simulated cervical spine immobilization

    • Shinichi Kihara
    • Yuichi Yaguchi
    • Seiji Watanabe

    Cardiothoracic Anesthesia, Respiration and Airway Pages: 105 - 110

20. Pain on injection of rocuronium: influence of ketamine pretreatment

    • Rajesh Mahajan
    • Yatendra Kumar Batra
    • Sushil Kumar

    Correspondence Pages: 111 - 112

21. Continuous extrapleural infusion of ropivcicciine in children: is it safe?

    • Konrad Maurer
    • Katharina M. Rentsch
    • Edith R. Schmid

    Correspondence Pages: 112 - 113

22. Epidural blood patch in a Jehovah’s Witness patient with post-dural puncture cephalgia

    • Narasimhan Jagannathan
    • John E. Tetzlaff

    Correspondence Pages: 113 - 113

23. Regional anesthesia in parturients with low platelet counts

    • Vladmir Frenk
    • William Camann
    • Kodali Bhavani Shankar

    Correspondence Pages: 114 - 114

24. Cricoid pressure application to awake volunteers: discomfort cannot be used to indicate appropriate force

    • James H. MacG Palmer
    • Steve M. Yentis

    Correspondence Pages: 114 - 115

25. Tracheal intubation in an adult male with Mallampati class zero airway

    • Tadakazu Sakuragi
    • Koichiro Hori
    • Miki Ishida

    Correspondence Pages: 115 - 116

26. The ProSeal laryngeal mask airway interferes with magnetic resonance imaging

    • Cristóbal Añez
    • Ana Fuentes
    • Maria Rull

    Correspondence Pages: 116 - 117

27. The spatula introducer for insertion of the flexible reinforced laryngeal mask airway (RLMA)

    • Hae -Keum Kil
    • Bon -Neyo Koo
    • Won -Oak Kim

    Correspondence Pages: 117 - 118

28. Intoxication by bleach ingestion

    • David Bracco
    • Marc -Jacques Dubois
    • Redouane Bouali

    Correspondence Pages: 118 - 119

29. Cerebral infarction following carotid arterial injection of adrenaline

    • Neeraj Saxena
    • Munish Sharma

    Correspondence Pages: 119 - 119

30. Erratum

    • Ismaïl Kaloul
    • Joanne Guay
    • Michel Fallaha

    Erratum Pages: 119 - 119

31. Contributions to nephrology vol. 144: Sepsis, kidney and multiple organ dysfunction

    • David Bracco

    Book & New Media Reviews Pages: 120 - 120