1. Elevated postoperative inflammatory biomarkers are associated with short- and medium-term cognitive dysfunction after coronary artery surgery

   • Judith A. Hudetz
   • Sweeta D. Gandhi
   • Paul S. Pagel

   Original Article 09 November 2010 Pages: 1 - 9

   

2. Preoperative depression is a risk factor for postoperative short-term and long-term cognitive dysfunction in patients with diabetes mellitus

   • Yuji Kadoi
   • Chikara Kawauchi
   • Akio Mizutani

   Original Article 14 December 2010 Pages: 10 - 17

3. Assessment of intraoperative motor evoked potentials for predicting postoperative paraplegia in thoracic and thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repair

   • Toshinori Horiuchi
   • Masahiko Kawaguchi
   • Hitoshi Furuya

   Original Article 27 November 2010 Pages: 18 - 28

   

4. Effect of divided supplementation of remifentanil on seizure duration and hemodynamic responses during electroconvulsive therapy under propofol anesthesia

   • Kohki Nishikawa
   • Misako Higuchi
   • Michiaki Yamakage

   Original Article 30 November 2010 Pages: 29 - 33

5. Prompt prediction of successful defibrillation from 1-s ventricular fibrillation waveform in patients with out-of-hospital sudden cardiac arrest

   • Hiroshi Endoh
   • Seiji Hida
   • Tadayuki Honda

   Original Article 27 November 2010 Pages: 34 - 41

   

6. Protocol-based noninvasive positive pressure ventilation for acute respiratory failure

   • Tadashi Kikuchi
   • Satoshi Toba
   • Kazufumi Okamoto

   Original Article 09 December 2010 Pages: 42 - 49

   

7. Hypoxic hepatitis in critically ill patients: incidence, etiology and risk factors for mortality

   • Joan M. Raurich
   • Juan Antonio Llompart-Pou
   • Jordi Ibáñez

   Original Article 09 December 2010 Pages: 50 - 56

   

8. Total parenteral-nutrition-mediated dendritic-cell activation and infiltration into the small intestine in a rat model

   • Satoshi Hagiwara
   • Hideo Iwasaka
   • Takayuki Noguchi

   Original Article 06 November 2010 Pages: 57 - 64

   

9. Effects of orexin-A on propofol anesthesia in rats

   • Tetsuro Shirasaka
   • Tetsu Yonaha
   • Isao Tsuneyoshi

   Original Article 10 December 2010 Pages: 65 - 71

   

10. Awareness during anesthesia: the results of a questionnaire survey in Japan

    • Yasuhiro Morimoto
    • Yuko Nogami
    • Kenichi Masui

    Original Article 14 December 2010 Pages: 72 - 77

    

11. Antinociceptive action of carbamazepine on thermal hypersensitive pain at spinal level in a rat model of adjuvant-induced chronic inflammation

    • Tatsushige Iwamoto
    • Yoshihiro Takasugi
    • Shinichi Nakao

    Original Article 27 November 2010 Pages: 78 - 86

    

12. Anti-hyperalgesic effect of CaMKII inhibitor is associated with downregulation of phosphorylated CREB in rat spinal cord

    • Yanxia Wang
    • Xinzhi Cheng
    • Daqing Ma

    Original Article 28 December 2010 Pages: 87 - 92

    

13. Efficacy of the Airtraq^® laryngoscope with a fiberoptic bronchoscope compared with that of Airtraq^® alone for tracheal intubation: a manikin study

    • Kohki Nishikawa
    • Eiko Hukuoka
    • Michiaki Yamakage

    Original Article 04 November 2010 Pages: 93 - 97

    

14. Comparison of Supreme^® and Soft Seal^® laryngeal masks for airway management during cardiopulmonary resuscitation in novice doctors: a manikin study

    • Hanako Kohama
    • Nobuyasu Komasawa
    • Yoshiroh Kaminoh

    Original Article 01 December 2010 Pages: 98 - 103

    

15. Ectopic ACTH syndrome revealed as severe hypokalemia and persistent hypertension during the perioperative period: a case report

    • Shun Kishimoto
    • Kiichi Hirota
    • Kazuhiko Fukuda

    Clinical Report 04 November 2010 Pages: 104 - 107

    

16. Pituitary apoplexy precipitating diabetes insipidus after living donor liver transplantation

    • Takashi Matsusaki
    • Hiroshi Morimatsu
    • Kiyoshi Morita

    Clinical Report 06 January 2011 Pages: 108 - 111

    

17. A case of intraoperative coronary artery spasm in a patient with vascular disease

    • Masaki Ito
    • Masachika Hayashi
    • Sohtaro Miyoshi

    Clinical Report 22 December 2010 Pages: 112 - 116

    

18. Use of bispectral index monitoring for a patient with hepatic encephalopathy requiring living donor liver transplantation: a case report

    • Hirobumi Okawa
    • Tomoko Ono
    • Kazuyoshi Hirota

    Clinical Report 03 December 2010 Pages: 117 - 119

19. Upper airway obstruction associated with flexed cervical position after posterior occipitocervical fusion

    • Tsuyoshi Tagawa
    • Koji Akeda
    • Shigeki Sakuraba

    Clinical Report 28 December 2010 Pages: 120 - 122

    

20. Anesthetic management of a child with Aicardi syndrome undergoing laparoscopic Nissen’s fundoplication: a case report

    • Yui Terakawa
    • Takaaki Miwa
    • Koui Ka

    Clinical Report 09 December 2010 Pages: 123 - 126

21. Validation of inflationary non-invasive blood pressure monitoring in adult surgical patients

    • Jun Onodera
    • Yoshifumi Kotake
    • Sunao Takeda

    Short Communication 28 December 2010 Pages: 127 - 130

    

22. Comments on use of a Parker Flex-Tip tube^® to facilitate intubation with the Pentax-AWS^®

    • Fu Shan Xue
    • Yu Jing Yuan
    • Xu Liao

    Letter to the Editor 21 December 2010 Pages: 131 - 132

23. In reply: Comments on use of a Parker Flex-Tip tube^® to facilitate intubation with the Pentax-AWS^®

    • Akihiro Suzuki
    • Tadahisa Ohmura
    • Takayuki Kunisawa

    Letter to the Editor 28 December 2010 Pages: 133 - 134

    

24. Comment on the article by Bindra A et al.: Is the modified Mallampati test performed in supine position a reliable predictor of difficult tracheal intubation?

    • Milan Adamus

    Letter to the Editor 05 November 2010 Pages: 135 - 135

25. In reply to comment on “Is the modified Mallampati test performed in supine position a reliable predictor of difficult tracheal intubation?”

    • Ashish Bindra
    • Hemanshu Prabhakar

    Letter to the Editor 06 November 2010 Pages: 136 - 136

26. Erratum to: Is the modified Mallampati test performed in supine position a reliable predictor of difficult tracheal intubation?

    • Ashish Bindra
    • Hemanshu Prabhakar
    • Vasudha Singhal

    Erratum 28 December 2010 Pages: 137 - 137

27. Rare cause of light failure in two Macintosh blades within 2 weeks

    • Thomas E. Schulte
    • Ankit Agrawal

    Letter to the Editor 10 December 2010 Pages: 138 - 139

    

28. A new application for near-infrared spectroscopy in regional anesthesia?

    • Phil B. Tsai
    • Vadim Tokhner
    • Clinton Kakazu

    Letter to the Editor 03 December 2010 Pages: 140 - 141

    

29. C-arm fluoroscopic cone-beam CT for guidance of chemical thoracic sympathectomy

    • Munetaka Hirose
    • Mari Tabata
    • Kenji Takeuchi

    Letter to the Editor 30 November 2010 Pages: 142 - 143

    

30. Young anesthesiologists, be a frontline respiratory researcher

    • Shiroh Isono
    • Michiaki Yamakage

    JA Symposium 14 December 2010 Pages: 144 - 144

31. Cigarette smoking-induced airway hyperreactivity

    • Michiaki Yamakage

    JA Symposium 14 December 2010 Pages: 145 - 146

    

32. Study on airway smooth muscle tone using fiberoptic bronchoscopy: basic research and clinical application

    • Kazuyoshi Hirota

    JA Symposium 28 December 2010 Pages: 147 - 151

    

33. Acute lung injury and alveolar epithelial function

    • Tokujiro Uchida

    JA Symposium 14 December 2010 Pages: 152 - 154

    

34. Therapeutic strategy for acute respiratory distress syndrome: recent understanding of the pathophysiology of the disease

    • Kiyoyasu Kurahashi

    JA Symposium 28 December 2010 Pages: 155 - 156

    

35. Dyspnea and its interaction with pain

    • Takashi Nishino

    JA Symposium 14 December 2010 Pages: 157 - 161