1. Journal of Anesthesia to be included in Index Medicus/MEDLINE database

   • Hidenori Toyooka

   Editorials Pages: 215 - 215

2. Do we really know how pulse oximetry works?

   • Katsuyuki Miyasaka

   OriginalPaper Pages: 216 - 217

3. Comparison of hemodynamic and anesthetic effects of hyperbaric bupivacaine and tetracaine in spinal anesthesia

   • Tomoki Nishiyama
   • Kyoko Komatsu
   • Kazuo Hanaoka

   Original articles Pages: 218 - 222

4. Hemodynamic and bispectral index responses to tracheal intubation during isoflurane or sevoflurane anesthesia

   • Masayasu Nakayama
   • Noriaki Kanaya
   • Akiyoshi Namiki

   OriginalPaper Pages: 223 - 226

5. The effect of craniotomy location on postoperative pain and nausea

   • Samuel A. Irefin
   • Armin Schubert
   • Zeyd Y. Ebrahim

   OriginalPaper Pages: 227 - 231

6. Survey of patients whose lungs could not be ventilated and whose trachea could not be intubated in university hospitals in Japan

   • Takumi Nagaro
   • Toshihiro Yorozuya
   • Kentaro Dote

   OriginalPaper Pages: 232 - 240

7. Enhancement of lidocaine-induced epidural anesthesia by deoxyaconitine in the rabbit

   • Yasuo Komoda
   • Shuichi Nosaka
   • Makoto Takenoshita

   OriginalPaper Pages: 241 - 245

8. Propofol inhibits lidocaine metabolism in human and rat liver microsomes

   • Shinichi Inomata
   • Atsushi Nagashima
   • Hidenori Toyooka

   OriginalPaper Pages: 246 - 250

9. Cellular mechanisms of airway smooth muscle relaxant effects of anesthetic agents

   • Michiaki Yamakage
   • Akiyoshi Namiki

   Review article Pages: 251 - 258

10. Pulse oximetry: its invention, theory, and future

    • Takuo Aoyagi

    Special articles Pages: 259 - 266

11. Pulse oximeters: personal recollections of the past and hopes for the future

    • Kunio Suwa

    OriginalPaper Pages: 267 - 269

12. In patients with adult respiratory distress syndrome, initial responders to inhaled nitric oxide did not show better outcome than nonresponders

    • Hiroshi Hinohara
    • Yuji Kadoi
    • Fumio Goto

    Clinical reports Pages: 270 - 273

13. Acute aortic dissection during vertical displacement of the heart in off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (OPCAB)

    • Hiroshi Ozasa
    • Kosaku Toyota
    • Tomoko Muguruma

    OriginalPaper Pages: 274 - 276

14. Combination of intrathecal and intravenous fentanyl for cesarean delivery

    • Yoshifumi Kotake
    • Midori Matsumoto
    • Junzo Takeda

    OriginalPaper Pages: 277 - 280

15. Effects of clonidine on lidocaine metabolism in human or rat liver microsomes

    • Shinichi Inomata
    • Atsushi Nagashima
    • Hidenori Toyooka

    Short communications Pages: 281 - 283

16. Effect of temperature on gastric intramucosal P_{CO 2} measurement by saline and air tonometry

    • Hiroshi Dohgomori
    • Kazuhiro Arikawa
    • Yuichi Kanmura

    OriginalPaper Pages: 284 - 286