1. Naloxone reversal of opioid anesthesia revisited: clinical evaluation and plasma concentration analysis of continuous naloxone infusion after anesthesia with high-dose fentanyl

   • Masahiko Takahashi
   • Kimitoshi Sugiyama
   • Kiyoshi Kusaka

   Original articles Pages: 1 - 8

2. Oral etodolac, a COX-2 inhibitor, reduces postoperative pain immediately after fast-track cardiac surgery

   • Shiro Koizuka
   • Shigeru Saito
   • Fumio Goto

   OriginalPaper Pages: 9 - 13

3. Accuracy of a point-of-care blood gas analyzer in gastric tonometry measurements of intramucosal pH (pHi) and P_{CO 2} gap

   • Hiroshi Dohgomori
   • Kazuhiro Arikawa
   • Yuichi Kanmura

   OriginalPaper Pages: 14 - 17

4. Intraoperative spinal cord monitoring of motor function with myogenic motor evoked potentials: a consideration in anesthesia

   • Masahiko Kawaguchi
   • Hitoshi Furuya

   Review articles Pages: 18 - 28

5. The role of interventional pain management in chronic pain

   • Alex Cahana
   • Philippe Mavrocordatos
   • Setsuro Ogawa

   OriginalPaper Pages: 29 - 35

6. Intravenous infusion of adenosine 5″-triphosphate alleviated a disabling postherpetic neuralgia

   • Masakazu Hayashida
   • Kanako Sato
   • Kazuo Hanaoka

   Clinical reports Pages: 36 - 38

7. Patient-controlled sedation using propofol in eight patients with endstage renal failure

   • Manabu Kakinohana
   • Joho Tokumine
   • Kazuhiro Sugahara

   OriginalPaper Pages: 39 - 42

8. Body movement during propofol anesthesia appears to be related to the individual rather than to environmental conditions

   • Osamu Nagata
   • Tae Igarashi
   • Makoto Ozaki

   OriginalPaper Pages: 43 - 44

9. Anesthetic management of lumbar discectomy in a pregnant patient

   • Leyla İyİlİkÇİ
   • Serhat Erbayraktar
   • SevİnÇ Sannav

   OriginalPaper Pages: 45 - 47

10. Respiratory failure caused by massive pleural effusion in a patient with deep neck abscess

    • Keisuke Yamada
    • Kazumi Hashimoto
    • Keizo Shibata

    OriginalPaper Pages: 48 - 50

11. Volatile induction and maintenance of anesthesia using laryngeal mask airway in pediatric patients

    • GÖnÜl Tezcan KeleŞ
    • Verda Toprak
    • Nurettin LÜleci

    OriginalPaper Pages: 51 - 54

12. Emergency airway management of patients with peritonsillar abscess

    • Kazumi Ono
    • Chiharu Hirayama
    • Hidekuni Hidaka

    OriginalPaper Pages: 55 - 58

13. Effect of tube guide assembly of closed suction system on airway pressure gradient

    • Kunihiko Hoshi
    • Chikanobu Sasaki
    • Shuh Matsukawa

    Short communications Pages: 59 - 61

14. Perioperative hypercoagulability in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: Sonoclot study

    • Yukiko Mukubo
    • Miwako Kawamata

    OriginalPaper Pages: 62 - 64

15. “Takotsubo”-shaped cardiomyopathy manifesting as perioperative T-wave inversion

    • Kyung-Ho Chang
    • Makoto Ogawa
    • Kazuo Hanaoka

    Letters to the editor Pages: 65 - 65

16. “Takotsubo”-shaped cardiomyopathy manifesting as perioperative T-wave inversion: a reply

    • Masahiro Ide
    • Yoshiyasu Esaki
    • Hiroko Kato

    OriginalPaper Pages: 66 - 66

17. Fundamentals of Anaesthesia, 2nd ed., by Colin Pinnock, Ted Lin, and Tim Smith; Associate Editor, Robert Jones (Greenwich Medical Media, Greenwich, UK, 2003. 952 pp. $57.50)

    • Naosuke Sugai

    Book reviews Pages: 67 - 67

18. “This is no humbug!” Reminiscences of the Department of Anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital. A History, edited by Richard J. Kitz (Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA, 2003. 459 pp.)

    • Takahisa Goto

    OriginalPaper Pages: 68 - 69