1. The health(y) cost of erythropoietin in orthopedic surgery

   • A. Fergusson
   • Paul Hébert

   Editorial Pages: 347 - 351

2. Clinical freedom’s final refuge

   • Saifee Rashiq

   Editorial Pages: 352 - 355

3. Noncardiac surgery in patients with coronary artery stent: what should the anesthesiologist know?

   • Jean-Yves Dupuis
   • Marino Labinaz

   EditorialNotes Pages: 356 - 361

4. Erythropoietin is an effective clinical modality for reducing RBC transfusion in joint surgery

   • Stuart A. McCluskey
   • Mohammed Ghannam
   • Roderrick Davey

   General Anesthesia Pages: 362 - 368

5. Use of hemoglobin raffimer for postoperative life-threatening anemia in a Jehovah’s Witness

   • Marcella J. Lanzinger
   • Steven E. Hill
   • Michael Shannon

   General anesthesia Pages: 369 - 373

6. Changes in hematocrit based on incremental blood sampling: mathematical models perform poorly

   • Luis I. Cortinez
   • Jacques Somma
   • Eugene W. Moretti

   General anesthesia Pages: 374 - 378

7. The Stealth Station Image Guidance System may interfere with pulse oximetry

   • Johannes H. van Oostrom
   • Michael E. Mahla
   • Dietrich Gravenstein

   General anesthesia Pages: 379 - 382

8. Survey of chronic pain practice by anesthesiologists in Canada

   • Philip W. H. Peng
   • Elkin D. Castano

   OriginalPaper Pages: 383 - 389

9. Duration of analgesia is similar when 15, 20, 25 and 30 mL of ropivacaine 0.5% are administered via a femoral catheter

   • Anne Weber
   • Roxane Fournier
   • Nicolas Riand

   Regional anesthesia and pain Pages: 390 - 396

10. Expectant management of postdural puncture headache increases hospital length of stay and emergency room visits

    • Pamela Angle
    • Dorothy Thompson
    • Samuel Lap Tak Tang

    Obstetrical and Pediatric Anesthesia Pages: 397 - 402

11. Hyperbaric treatment of cerebral air embolism in an infant with cyanotic congenital heart disease

    • Kenneth M. LeDez
    • Geoff Zbitnew

    Ostetrical and pediatric anesthesia Pages: 403 - 408

12. General anesthesia for patients with Brugada syndrome. A report of six cases

    • Mihoko Inamura
    • Hirotsugu Okamoto
    • Sumio Hoka

    Cardiothoracic Anesthesia, Respiration and Airway Pages: 409 - 412

13. Use of a neck brace minimizes double-lumen tube displacement during patient positioning

    • Tae-Gyoon Yoon
    • Ho-Geol Ryu
    • Hye-Won Chang

    Cardiothoracic anesthesia, respiration and airway Pages: 413 - 417

14. Airway control via the Cobrapla™ during percutaneous dilatational tracheotomy in five patients

    • Felice Agrò
    • Massimiliano Carassiti
    • David Alfery

    Cardiothoracic anesthesia, respiration and airway Pages: 418 - 420

15. La sédation au propofol permet l’intubation difficile vigile avec le masque laryngé Fastrach^TM

    • Franck Hamard
    • Martine Ferrandiere
    • Marc Laffon

    Cardiothoracic anesthesia, respiration and airway Pages: 421 - 427

16. Colorimetric carbon dioxide detector to determine accidental tracheal feeding tube placement

    • Daniel W. Howes
    • William Pickett
    • Eric S. Shelley

    OriginalPaper Pages: 428 - 432

17. Acute paralysis following “a bad potato”: A case of botulism

    • Mohit Bhutani
    • Edward Ralph
    • Michael D. Sharpe

    OriginalPaper Pages: 433 - 436

18. Grow your own: strategies to develop anesthesia researchers

    • Viren N. Naik
    • Mark F. Levine
    • Beverly A. Orser

    Correspondence Pages: 437 - 437

19. Preventing pain on injection of rocuronium: two doses of dexmedetomidine

    • Dilek Memis
    • Alparslan Turan
    • Sermin Seker

    Correspondence Pages: 437 - 438

20. Percutaneous transhepatic biliary dilatation under thoracic epidural analgesia in a patient with a recent myocardial infarction

    • Anil Agarwal
    • Sanjay Dhiraaj
    • Shiopriye

    Correspondence Pages: 438 - 439

21. Decrease of the inhibitory effect of lidocaine on trigeminal nerve response by the inflammatory oxidant peroxynitrite

    • Ko Takakura
    • Maki Mizogami
    • Ikonobu Muramatsu

    Correspondence Pages: 439 - 440

22. Appropriate waiting time for noncardiac surgery following coronary stent insertion: views of Canadian anethesiologists

    • Lindsey Patterson
    • Duncan Hunter
    • Andrea Mann

    Correspondence Pages: 440 - 441

23. S100ß and postcardiac surgery neurological dysfunction: reasons to disregard any link

    • Hilary P. Grocott
    • Meral Kanbak
    • Turgay Ocal

    Correspondence Pages: 441 - 443

24. Intrathoracic positioning of a thoracic epidural catheter inserted via the median approach

    • Britta Patermann
    • John Lynch
    • Sandra Kampe

    Correspondence Pages: 443 - 444

25. Comparison of the accuracy of two different modes of continuous cardiac index measurement following rapid volume infusion

    • Christoph Wiesenack
    • Christoph Fiegl
    • Cornelius Keyl

    Correspondence Pages: 444 - 445

26. Airway management for postoperative respiratory failure: Use of the laryngeal mask airway

    • Thomas W. Felbinger
    • S. Rao Mallampati
    • Holger K. Eltzschig

    Correspondence Pages: 445 - 446

27. Using a CO₂ detector to confirm endotracheal intubation in SARS patients

    • Chien-Kun Ting
    • Hsu-Tang Liu
    • Shen-Kou Tsai

    Correspondence Pages: 446 - 447

28. Ventricular fibrillation in the postanesthesia care unit (PACU) secondary to coronary spasm

    • Jean-Corentin Salengros
    • Pierre Pandin
    • Edgard Engelman

    Correspondence Pages: 447 - 447

29. The Airway Cam^™ guide to intubation and practical emergency airway management

    • D. John Doyle

    Book & New Media Reviews Pages: 448 - 448

30. In collaboration with the canadian critical care society, the canadian journal of Anesthesia is proud to publish the best posters presented at the Toronto critical care medicine symposium 2004 (adult and pediatric) held in Toronto, Ontario, october 21-october 23, 2004

    • Doherty DR
    • Sutcliffe IT
    • Nenadovic Vera

    Abstract Pages: A1 - A8