General anesthesia research developments / Milo Hertzog and Zelig Kuhn, editors.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Theories of ligand diffusion, general anesthesia, and sleep / Lemont B. Kier -- Xenon : the 'strange' one / A. Fahlenkamp A., R. Rossaint and M. Coburn -- Possible indications of beta-blockers in the perioperative period other than prevention of cardiac ischemia / Yuji Kadoi -- Could perioperative fluid management change outcomes? / Silvia Gil Trujillo -- Mechanical ventilation during general anesthesia / Marco Luchetti -- A poly-alert system for cardiovascular changes during anaesthesia / Michael J. Harrison -- Regional anesthesia and thromboembolic prophylaxis in patients undergoing total hip and knee arthroplasty / Andrea Fanelli ... [et al.] -- Hemodynamic and bispectral index responses to high doses of remifentanil in patients with brain tumors submitted to neurosurgical procedures / Lénio Ribeiro ... [et al.] -- The simulation of controlling of anesthesia using a novel multivariable fuzzy logic and self-organizing fuzzy logic controller / Jiann-Shing Shieh ... [et al.] -- Esophagogastroduodenoscopy in children in an ambulatory setting : comparison of three techniques / Claude Abdallah ... [et al.].