Anesthesia For The New Millennium: Modern Anesthetic Clinical Pharmacology (developments In Critical Care Medicine And Anaesthesiology)

__Anesthesia for the New Millenium: Modern Anesthetic Clinical____Pharmacology__ contains the refresher course lectures of the 1999 meeting and is a review of the current state of the art in anesthesia clinical pharmacology. The authors of the individual chapters are among the world's most widely recognized experts in the pharmacology of perioperative medicine. The book features sections on new pharmacology concepts, new drug delivery techniques, recently released drugs and novel thinking about older drugs. It also addresses several areas that have recently emerged as very hot clinical and research topics, including depth of anesthesia monitoring technology and anesthesia drug interactions. The textbook is the seventeenth in a continuing series documenting the proceedings of the postgraduate course. Front Matter....Pages i-xii New Pharmacokinetic Concepts....Pages 1-11 The Biophase Concept....Pages 13-18 Handedness in Anesthetic Pharmacology....Pages 19-29 Anesthetics and Ventilatory Drive....Pages 31-47 When Does the Infant Mature Pharmacologically?....Pages 49-54 Brain Imaging for Elucidating Mechanisms of Anesthesia....Pages 55-61 Is Pharmacokinetics Relevant?....Pages 63-70 Physiologic vs. Pharmacologic Sleep....Pages 71-75 Awareness Under Anesthesia: Current Understanding....Pages 77-84 Depth of Anesthesia Monitoring Techniques: An Overview....Pages 85-89 Bispectral Index Monitoring Technology: An Overview....Pages 91-97 Bispectral Monitoring Technology: Clinical Applications....Pages 99-104 Target Controlled Drug Delivery in Anesthesiology....Pages 105-116 The Principles of Total Intravenous Anesthesia (TIVA)....Pages 117-136 Transmucosal and Other New Drug Delivery Technologies....Pages 137-151 A Concept for Assessing Anesthetic Interactions....Pages 153-164 Drug Interactions: Opioids and Sedative Hypnotics....Pages 165-170 Interactions: General Principles....Pages 171-179 Drug Interactions: Opioids and Inhaled Anesthetics....Pages 181-194 An Update on the Clinical Use of Propofol....Pages 195-198 Kinetic Considerations in the Selection of an Inhaled Anesthetic....Pages 199-206 Controversies Regarding Sevoflurane & Desflurane Toxicity....Pages 207-212 The Role of Alpha 2 Agonists in Anesthesiology....Pages 213-225 Current Concepts in Anti-Emetic Therapy....Pages 227-232 New Insights Into Muscle Relaxants....Pages 233-240 Remifentanil: Clinical Applications....Pages 241-261 Drug Addiction Among Anesthesiologists....Pages 263-266 Antagonism of Anesthetic Effects....Pages 267-275 Economics of Anesthesia Education....Pages 277-283 The Role of Ketamine in Anesthetic Practice....Pages 285-288 Back Matter....Pages 289-290 Anesthesia for the New Millenium: Modern Anesthetic Clinical Pharmacology contains the refresher course lectures of the 1999 meeting and is a review of the current state of the art in anesthesia clinical pharmacology. The authors of the individual chapters are among the world's most widely recognized experts in the pharmacology of perioperative medicine. The book features sections on new pharmacology concepts, new drug delivery techniques, recently released drugs and novel thinking about older drugs. It also addresses several areas that have recently emerged as very hot clinical and research topics, including depth of anesthesia monitoring technology and anesthesia drug interactions. The textbook is the seventeenth in a continuing series documenting the proceedings of the postgraduate course.