187-192
Original articles
Current practice of preoperative fasting: a nationwide survey in Japanese anesthesia-teaching hospitals
Nobuaki Shime, Akira Ono, Eiichi Chihara and Yoshifumi Tanaka
193-198
Determination of the standard value of circulating blood volume during anesthesia using pulse dye-densitometry: a multicenter study in Japan
Takehiko Iijima, Hiroshi Ueyama, Yoshiyuki Oi, Isao Fukuda and Hironori Ishihara, et al.
199-203
Pain management after lumbar spinal fusion surgery using continuous subcutaneous infusion of buprenorphine
Tomoyuki Kawamata, Yasumitsu Sato, Yukitoshi Niiyama, Keiichi Omote and Akiyoshi Namiki
204-207
Effect of flumazenil on recovery from sevoflurane anesthesia in children premedicated with oral midazolam before undergoing herniorrhaphy with or without caudal analgesia
Hiromi Araki, Yoshihiro Fujiwara and Yasuhiro Shimada
208-212
Patient-controlled epidural analgesia during labor using ropivacaine and fentanyl provides better maternal satisfaction with less local anesthetic requirement
Miwako Saito, Toshiyuki Okutomi, Yuji Kanai, Junko Mochizuki and Akihiro Tani, et al.
213-217
Hemodynamic and catecholamine response to a rapid increase in isoflurane or sevoflurane concentration during a maintenance phase of anesthesia in humans
Tomoki Nishiyama
218-224
Analgesic effects of nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs, acetaminophen, and morphine in a mouse model of bone cancer pain
Osamu Saito, Tomohiko Aoe and Tatsuo Yamamoto
225-235
Review articles
Clinical application of adenosine and ATP for pain control
Masakazu Hayashida, Ken-ichi Fukuda and Atsuo Fukunaga
236-242
Heat shock protein 70 and the acute respiratory distress syndrome
Zohar Bromberg, Clifford S. Deutschman and Yoram G. Weiss
243-246
Clinical reports
Use of the bispectral index during the early postresuscitative phase after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
Shigehiro Shibata, Tsuyoshi Imota, Souhaku Shigeomi, Wakana Sato and Keiji Enzan
247-248
Unanticipated full stomach at anesthesia induction in a type I diabetic patient with asymptomatic gastroparesis
Joho Tokumine, Kazuhiro Sugahara, Tatsuya Fuchigami, Koji Teruya and Kenichi Nitta, et al.
249-251
A case of cardiac tamponade following esophageal resection
Yoshiaki Mizuguchi, Shinhiro Takeda, Masao Miyashita, Hiroyuki Ikezaki and Yushi Nakajima, et al.
252-256
Anesthetic management of a patient with β-thalassemia intermedia undergoing splenectomy: a case report
Takeshi Kitoh, Satoshi Tanaka, Koichi Ono, Joe Hasegawa and Tetsutaro Otagiri
257-259
Short communications
Effect of cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitor pretreatment on gas exchange after hydrochloric acid aspiration in rats
Yoshiaki Terao, Toshiaki Nakamura, Hiroaki Morooka and Koji Sumikawa
260-262
Comparison of the intracuff pressures of three different tracheostomy tubes
Tomoki Nishiyama
263-265
Opioid receptor stimulation does not affect cellular hypoxia-induced gene responses mediated by hypoxia-inducible factor 1 in cultured cell lines
Satoshi Takabuchi, Kiichi Hirota, Seiko Oda, Kenichiro Nishi and Tomoyuki Oda, et al.
266-267
Letters to the editor
A useful method for laryngeal mask insertion
Noriaki Kanaya, Junko Kanaya and Akiyoshi Namiki
268-269
Letters to the editor
Computed tomography fluoroscopy-guided lumbar sympathectomy for a patient with peripheral vascular disease and lumbar spine compression fracture
Masataka Kuroda, Shiro Koizuka, Shigeru Saito, Eri Sato and Daisuke Takizawa, et al.
270
Letters to the editor
Prolonged postictal apnea after general anesthesia
Ahed Zeidan and Nazih Nahlé
271-272
Letters to the editor
Double gauze bite block for orotracheally intubated patients
Yuko Kojima, Hiroaki Ina and Shigeru Yokota