Anesthesiology: Today and Tomorrow : Annual Utah Postgraduate Course in Anesthesiology 1985

Postgraduate Course in Anesthesiology, it seems timely to look back. How and why did this program start? What nourished the idea? What was practice like then? Who was responsible for the early beginnings and for bringing the course to where it is today. And finally, what does the future hold for such courses? Actually the first course in the fall of 1955 came as a result of urgings Front Matter....Pages i-vii Prologue. Looking Back—Looking Ahead....Pages 1-6 Choice of Agent — Today and Tomorrow....Pages 7-9 Metabolic Functions of the Lung: Biochemical Activities that have Clinical Significance....Pages 11-22 Neuroleptanalgesia: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow....Pages 23-42 The New Sedative/Hypnotics....Pages 43-48 New Compounds and New Supplements for Anesthesia....Pages 49-67 Very Potent Compounds and New Approachs to Anesthesia....Pages 69-74 Alfentanil....Pages 75-78 Sufentanil....Pages 79-81 Agonist-Antagonists and their Receptors....Pages 83-92 New Uses for Agonist-Antagonists in Anesthesia....Pages 93-114 Ketamine and Phencyclidines: Today and Tomorrow....Pages 115-141 The Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome: Mechanisms and Management....Pages 143-157 Basic Understanding of Intrapulmonary Percussive Ventilation IPV....Pages 159-169 Basic Understanding of Volumetric Diffusive Respiration VDR....Pages 171-179 The Pathophysiology of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation....Pages 181-186 The Cardiovascular Effects of Inhalational Anesthetics....Pages 187-193 Cardiac Monitoring Techniques of the Future: Transesophageal 2-D Echocardiography....Pages 195-200 Non-Invasive Monitoring: In Vivo Biochemistry....Pages 201-208 Analgesia for Labor: Past, Present And Future....Pages 209-225 Toxemia of Pregnancy .... Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow....Pages 227-232 Volatile Anesthetics and the Brain: The Rationale for Use in Neurosurgery....Pages 233-239 Detection of Brain Injury During Surgery: Today and Tomorrow....Pages 241-247 The New Muscle Relaxants....Pages 249-252 Pain Pathways and Mechanisms....Pages 253-260 Non-Chemical Methods of Managing Pain....Pages 261-265 Patient Controlled Analgesia vs Conventional Postoperative Pain Management....Pages 267-273 Toxicity of Local Anesthetics....Pages 275-280 Present and New Approaches to Regional Anesthesia of The Extremities....Pages 281-292