Table of Contents

PART I: Perioperative care (H-J Priebe); Editorial: Unsettled issues in the field of perioperative care; 1. Perioperative blood component therapy and haemostasis, T Walsh; 2. Perioperative respiratory care, G Mols; 3. Perioperative cardioprotection, J Arrowsmith; 4. Ambulatory and outpatient anaesthesia, G Iohom, G Joshi; PART II: Clinical Pharmacology (M Struys); Editorial: What's new in anaesthetic pharmacology?; 5. Mechanisms of pain pharmacology: what's new? PA Goldstein; 6. Drug administration techniques, RJ Sneyd; 7. New and forthcoming reversal agents in anaesthesia, S Mitchell, J Hunter; 8. Receptors in anaesthesia: what's new? D Lambert; PART III: Monitoring and equipment (T Cook); Editorial: New technology applied to anaesthesia and critical care; 9. Resuscitation equipment, J Soar; 10. Computers in anaesthesia and ICU, R Verma; 11. Simulation in training, R Glavin; 12. Fibreoptic intubation adjuncts, N Lam, C Hagberg; PART IV: Critical Care (J Hunter); Editorial: Vasopressin and its analogues in critical care - do they live up to expectations?; 13. Serious medical errors in intensive care, A Fahrenkopf, C Landrigan; 14. Surviving sepsis, P Holder, N Webster; 15. Glycaemic control in critical care, R Cusack, B Philips; 16. Hypothermia post cardiac arrest, J Nolan; List of abbreviations; Index of papers reviewed; General index.