Anesthesiology: Today and Tomorrow

1. Prologue. Looking back looking ahead.- 2. Choice of agent today and tomorrow.- 3. Metabolic functions of the lung: biochemical activities that have clinical significance.- 4. Neuroleptanalgesia: yesterday, today, tomorrow.- 5. The new sedative/hypnotics.- 6. New compounds and new supplements for anesthesia.- 7. Very potent compounds and new approaches to anesthesia.- 8. Alfentanil.- 9. Sufentanil.- 10. Agonist-antagonists and their receptors.- 11. New uses for agonist-antagonists in anesthesia.- 12. Ketamine and phencyclidines: today and tomorrow.- 13. The adult respiratory distress syndrome: mechanisms and management.- 14. Basic understanding of intrapulmonary percussive ventilation IPV.- 15.Basic understanding of volumetric diffusive respiration VDR.- 16. The pathophysiology of cardiopulmonary resuscitation.- 17. The cardiovascular effects of inhalational anesthetics.- 18. Cardiac monitoring techniques of the future: transesophageal 2-D echocardiography.- 19. Non-invasive monitoring: in vivo biochemistry.- 20. Analgesia for labor: past, present and future.- 21. Toxemia of pregnancy yesterday, today and tomorrow.- 22. Volatile anesthetics and the brain: the rationale for use in neurosurgery.- 23. Detection of brain injury during surgery: today and tomorrow.- 24. The new muscle relaxants.- 25. Pain pathways and mechanisms.- 26. Non-chemical methods of managing pain.- 27. Patient controlled analgesia vs conventional postoperative pain management.- 28. Toxicity of local anesthetics.- 29. Present and new approaches to regional anesthesia of the extremities.