Editorials:

Barbara Gastel

Assessing the impact of investigators' work: beyond impact factors/Évaluer l'influence des travaux de recherche au delà des facteurs d'impact
Can J Anesth 2001 48: 941-945. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Pierre Beaulieu

Experimental pre-emptive analgesia: what value for the clinician?/L'analgésie préventive expérimentale, quelle est sa valeur clinique?
Can J Anesth 2001 48: 946-952. [Full Text] [PDF]  

General Anesthesia:

Argyro Fassoulaki, Constantine Sarantopoulos, Kostantinos Papilas, Konstantinos Patris, and Aikaterini Melemeni

Academic anesthesiologists' views on the importance of the impact factor of scientific journals: a North American and European survey : L'opinion des universitaires en anesthésiologie sur l'importance du facteur d'impact des revues scientifiques : une enquête nord-américaine et européenne
Can J Anesth 2001 48: 953-957. [Abstract] [Résumé] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Masayasu Nakayama, Michiko Hayashi, Hiromichi Ichinose, Shuji Yamamoto, Noriaki Kanaya, and Akiyoshi Namiki

Values of the bispectral index do not parallel the hemodynamic response to the rapid increase in isoflurane concentration : [Les valeurs de l'index bispectral ne correspondent pas à la réponse hémodynamique à la suite de l'augmentation rapide de la concentration d'isoflurane]
Can J Anesth 2001 48: 958-962. [Abstract] [Résumé] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Avi A. Weinbroum and Eran Geller

Flumazenil improves cognitive and neuromotor emergence and attenuates shivering after halothane-, enflurane- and isoflurane-based anesthesia : [Le flumazénil améliore le retour de l'activité cognitive et neuromotrice et atténue les frissons après une anesthésie à base d'halothane, d'enflurane ou d'isoflurane]
Can J Anesth 2001 48: 963-972. [Abstract] [Résumé] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jeng-Chai Huang, Ja-Ping Shieh, Chao-Shun Tang, Jann-Inn Tzeng, Koung-Shing Chu, and Jhi-Joung Wang

Low-dose dexamethasone effectively prevents postoperative nausea and vomiting after ambulatory laparoscopic surgery : [Une faible dose de dexaméthasone prévient efficacement les nausées et les vomissements postopératoires en chirurgie laparoscopique ambulatoire]
Can J Anesth 2001 48: 973-977. [Abstract] [Résumé] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Janne Rømsing, Steffen Mysager, Peter Vilmann, Jesper Sonne, Niels Erik Larsen, and Doris Østergaard

Postoperative analgesia is not different after local vs systemic administration of meloxicam in patients undergoing inguinal hernia repair : [L'analgésie postopératire ne diffère pas après l'administration locale ou intraveineuse de méloxicam pour une herniorraphie inguinale]
Can J Anesth 2001 48: 978-984. [Abstract] [Résumé] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Junichi Sasao, Stephen D. Tarver, James D. Kindscher, Chikuni Taneyama, Kirk T. Benson, and Hiroshi Goto

In rabbits, landiolol, a new ultra-short-acting ß-blocker, exerts a more potent negative chronotropic effect and less effect on blood pressure than esmolol : [Le landiolol, un nouveau ß-bloquant à action très brève, a un effet chronotropic négatif plus puissant et agit moins sur la tension artérielle que l'esmolol chez le lapin]
Can J Anesth 2001 48: 985-989. [Abstract] [Résumé] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Regional Anesthesia and Pain:

Sugantha Ganapathy and D. Norman Buckley

Best evidence in anesthetic practice: Prevention: intraoperative neuraxial blockade reduces some postoperative complications
Can J Anesth 2001 48: 990-992. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Tadashi Nakamura and Mayumi Takasaki

Intrathecal pre-administration of fentanyl effectively suppresses formalin evoked c-Fos expression in spinal cord of rat : [La pré-administration intrathécale de fentanyl supprime efficacement l'expression de c-Fos provoquée par le formol dans la moelle épinière du rat]
Can J Anesth 2001 48: 993-999. [Abstract] [Résumé] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Dermot J. Kelly, Mahmood Ahmad, and Sorin J. Brull

Preemptive analgesia I: physiological pathways and pharmacological modalities : [L'analgésie préventive I : mécanismes physiologiques et modalités pharmacologiques]
Can J Anesth 2001 48: 1000-1010. [Abstract] [Résumé] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Cardiothoracic Anesthesia, Respiration and Airway:

Nobuhiro Okano, Haruhiko Hiraoka, Ryoichi Owada, Nao Fujita, Yuji Kadoi, Shigeru Saito, Fumio Goto, and Toshihiro Morita

Hepatosplanchnic oxygenation is better preserved during mild hypothermic than during normothermic cardiopulmonary bypass : [L'oxygénation hépatosplanchnique est mieux préservée pendant la circulation extracorporelle sous légère hypothermie que sous normothermie]
Can J Anesth 2001 48: 1011-1014. [Abstract] [Résumé] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Pao-Ping Lu, Joseph Brimacombe, Angie C. Y. Ho, Ming-Hwang Shyr, and Hung-Pin Liu

The intubating laryngeal mask airway in severe ankylosing spondylitis : [L'utilisation du masque laryngé d'intubation en cas de spondylarthrite ankylosante sévère]
Can J Anesth 2001 48: 1015-1019. [Abstract] [Résumé] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sharon Davies, Chidambaram Ananthanarayan, and Carmencita Castro

Asymptomatic lingual tonsillar hypertrophy and difficult airway management: a report of three cases : [Hypertrophie asymptomatique de l'amygdale linguale et intubation difficile : compte rendu de trois observations]
Can J Anesth 2001 48: 1020-1024. [Abstract] [Résumé] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Takashi Asai and Koh Shingu

Case report: a normal capnogram despite esophageal intubation : [Étude de cas : un capnogramme normal malgré une intubation sophagienne]
Can J Anesth 2001 48: 1025-1028. [Abstract] [Résumé] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Neuroanesthesia and Intensive Care:

Ryuichi Kawata, Mishiya Matsumoto, Yasunori Haranishi, Kazuyoshi Ishida, Kazuhiko Nakakimura, and Takefumi Sakabe

Changes in cerebral blood flow velocity elicited by surgical stimulation are dependent on the PaCO₂ level: [Les changements de vitesse du flux sanguin cérébral, déclenchés par la stimulation chirurgicale, dépendent du niveau de PaCO₂]
Can J Anesth 2001 48: 1029-1033. [Abstract] [Résumé] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kristin Engelhard, Christian Werner, Oliver Möllenberg, and Eberhard Kochs

S(+)-ketamine/propofol maintain dynamic cerebrovascular autoregulation in humans : [Une combinaison de S(+)kétamine et de propofol maintient l'autorégulation vasculaire cérébrale dynamique chez l'humain]
Can J Anesth 2001 48: 1034-1039. [Abstract] [Résumé] [Full Text] [PDF]  

A. Chomel, J.C. Combes, J.M. Yeguiayan, and M. Freysz

L'insufflation trachéale de gaz permet d'éviter l'hypercapnie chez le traumatisé crânien grave avec syndrome de détresse respiratoire aiguë : [Tracheal gas insufflation avoids hypercapnia in patients with severe head trauma and acute lung injury]
Can J Anesth 2001 48: 1040-1044. [Abstract] [Résumé] [Full Text] [PDF]  

New Media:

D. John Doyle

[1]Web Site Review
Can J Anesth 2001 48: 1045. [Full Text] [PDF]  

G. Allen Finley

[2] Word Processing on the Palm Hand held Computer
Can J Anesth 2001 48: 1045-1046. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Correspondence:

Jae-Hyon Bahk

Management of the ‘anesthetized but cannot-ventilate’ situation
Can J Anesth 2001 48: 1047. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kirk Lalwani

"Poor Man's LMA"
Can J Anesth 2001 48: 1047-1048. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Amitabh Dutta, Y.K. Batra, A. Ram Mohan, and Pramila Chari

An unusual solution to unsuspected difficult airway: the esophageal dilator guide
Can J Anesth 2001 48: 1048-1049. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Richard N. Merchant and D. John Doyle

Special challenges with new digital anesthesia machines
Can J Anesth 2001 48: 1049. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Book Reviews:

Patrick Sullivan

Rapid Interpretation of EKG's 6^th Edition: D. Dubin. Cover Publishing Co., Tampa Florida, 2000. 368 pages. $60.50 (CDN) ISBN 0912912065
Can J Anesth 2001 48: 1050. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Frances Chung

Day Care Anesthesia: I. Smith (Ed.). BMJ Publishing Group, BMJ Books 2000. 251 pages. ISNB 0-7279-1422-7
Can J Anesth 2001 48: 1050. [Full Text] [PDF]  

François Donati

Conducting Research in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine: Alex M. Zbinden, Dick Thomson. Butterworth Heinemann, Oxford, 2001. 550 pages. $69.95 (US) ISBN 0-7506-4544-X
Can J Anesth 2001 48: 1051. [Full Text] [PDF]  

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