1. Airway management: the good, the bad, and the ugly

   • Orlando Hung

   Editorials Pages: 767 - 771

2. Changing anesthetic practice: walking to the OR

   • Jan M. Davies

   Editorial Pages: 772 - 776

3. Myocardial protection by anesthetic agents against ischemia-reperfusion injury: An update for anesthesiologists

   • Rie Kato
   • Pierre Foëx

   General Anesthesia Pages: 777 - 791

4. The Amsterdam preoperative anxiety and information scale provides a simple and reliable measure of preoperative anxiety

   • Abdulaziz Boker
   • Laurence Brownell
   • Neil Donen

   General Anesthesia Pages: 792 - 798

5. Silica zeolite scavenging of exhaled isoflurane: A preliminary report

   • D. John Doyle
   • Robert Byrick
   • Fred Cashin

   General Anesthesia Pages: 799 - 804

6. QT interval and QT dispersion increase in the elderly during laparoscopic cholecystectomy: A preliminary study

   • Hirotoshi Egawa
   • Junichi Minami
   • Toshimitsu Kitajima

   General Anesthesia Pages: 805 - 809

7. Total spinal anesthesia provides transient relief of intractable pain

   • Masataka Yokoyama
   • Yoshitaro Itano
   • Kiyoshi Morita

   Regional Anesthesia and Pain Pages: 810 - 813

8. Audit of an early feeding program after Cesarean delivery: Patient wellbeing is increased

   • Dan Benhamou
   • Monika Técsy
   • Colette Burg

   Obstetrical and Pediatric Anesthesia Pages: 814 - 819

9. Intracranial subdural hematoma following dural puncture in a parturient with HELLP syndrome

   • Tiberiu Ezri
   • Ezzat Abouleish
   • Shmuel Evron

   Obstetrical and Pediatric Anesthesia Pages: 820 - 823

10. Transcutaneously measured near-infrared spectroscopic liver tissue oxygenation does not correlate with hepatic venous oxygenation in children

    • Markus Weiss
    • Gabriele Schulz
    • Oskar Baenziger

    Obstetrical and Pediatric Anesthesia Pages: 824 - 829

11. Propofol decreases cerebral blood flow velocity in anesthetized children

    • Cengiz Karsli
    • Igor Luginbuehl
    • Bruno Bissonnette

    Obstetrical and Pediatric Anesthesia Pages: 830 - 834

12. Mechanisms of hemodynamic changes during off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery

    • Pierre Couture
    • André Denault
    • Raymond Cartier

    Cardiothoracic Anesthesia, Respiration and Airway Pages: 835 - 849

13. Management choices for the difficult airway by anesthesiologists in Canada

    • Kathryn Jenkins
    • David T. Wong
    • Robin Correa

    Cardiothoracic Anesthesia, Respiration and Airway Pages: 850 - 856

14. The LMA-ProSeal™ is an effective alternative to tracheal intubation for laparoscopic cholecystectomy

    • J. Roger Maltby
    • Michael T. Beriault
    • Gordon H. Fick

    Cardiothoracic Anesthesia, Respiration and Airway Pages: 857 - 862

15. The reinforced laryngeal mask airway (RLMA) protects the airway in patients undergoing nasal surgery — an observational study of 200 patients

    • M. Zubair Ahmed
    • Akbar Vohra

    Cardiothoracic Anesthesia, Respiration and Airway Pages: 863 - 866

16. The ProSeal laryngeal mask airway: fibreoptic visualization of the glottic opening is associated with ease of insertion of the gastric tube

    • Felice Agrò
    • Serena Antonelli
    • Tommasangelo Petitti

    Cardiothoracic Anesthesia, Respiration and Airway Pages: 867 - 870

17. Laryngeal mask cuff inflation at removal does not affect early postoperative laryngopharyngeal morbidity

    • Brian O’Brien
    • Dominic Harmon
    • Noel Flynn

    Cardiothoracic Anesthesia, Respiration and Airway Pages: 871 - 873

18. Case report: pulmonary soiling after one-lung ventilation with a bronchial blocker

    • Hee-Pyung Park
    • Jae-Hyon Bahk
    • Byung-Moon Ham

    Cardiothoracic Anesthesia, Respiration and Airway Pages: 874 - 876

19. RETRACTED ARTICLE: High-dose colforsin daropate increases diaphragmatic contractility in dogs

    • Yoshitaka Fujii
    • Hidenori Toyooka

    Cardiothoracic Anesthesia, Respiration and Airway 31 December 2008 Pages: 877 - 879

20. Primary cutaneous mucormycosis complicating the use of adhesive tape to secure the endotracheal tube

    • Kerrayem Alsuwaida

    Neuroanesthesia and Intensive Care Pages: 880 - 882

21. New media

    • D. John Doyle

    Announcement Pages: 883 - 884

22. Relieving anxiety by entering the operating room on foot

    • Yuko Kojima
    • Hiroaki Ina
    • Hiroyuki Mitono

    Correspondence Pages: 885 - 886

23. Preventing contamination of propofol infusions

    • Thomas Hackmann
    • Chris S. Soder

    Correspondence Pages: 886 - 886

24. Reply

    • Christian Kolbitsch

    Correspondence Pages: 886 - 886

25. Short- and long-term efficacy of oral ketamine in eight chronic-pain patients

    • Asako Furuhashi-Yonaha
    • Hiroki Iida
    • Shuji Dohi

    Correspondence Pages: 886 - 887

26. Hemodynamic effects of stellate ganglion block: analysis using a model of aortic input impedance

    • Kozo Yokoyama
    • Kazuna Sugiyama

    Correspondence Pages: 887 - 888

27. Decreased neck mobility and postoperative complications

    • Barry Shandling

    Correspondence Pages: 888 - 889

28. Posterior-beveled vs lateral-beveled tracheal tube for fibreoptic intubation

    • Anis Baraka
    • Marwan Rizk
    • Chakib Ayoub

    Correspondence Pages: 889 - 890

29. Use of a laryngeal mask in acute airway obstruction after carotid endarterectomy

    • René Martin
    • Yoland Girouard
    • Daniel J. Côté

    Correspondence Pages: 890 - 890

30. Effets des transferts intra-hospitaliers de patients traumatisés crâniens graves sur les paramètres de perfusion cérébrale

    • Jean Michel Yeguiayan
    • François Lenfant
    • Marc Freysz

    Correspondence Pages: 890 - 891

31. Book reviews

    • Jan M. Davies
    • Tracy Oldale
    • René Martin

    BookReview Pages: 892 - 893