Neuroanesthesia: Papers presented at the 42nd Annual Postgraduate Course in Anesthesiology, February 1997 (Developments in Critical Care Medicine and Anaesthesiology, 32)

__Neuroanesthesia__ contains the edited presentations of the 42nd Annual Postgraduate Course in Anesthesiology given by the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Utah School of Medicine, February 1997. The chapters reflect recent advances in neurophysiology, pharmacology and monitoring related to the practice of neuroanesthesiology. The sections on central nervous system trauma, intraoperative management, brain protection and postoperative care provide a conceptual framework for current clinical practices. This textbook is the fifteenth in a continuing series documenting the proceedings of the Postgraduate Course of the Department of Anesthesiology of the University of Utah School of Medicine. It reflects, as well as past and future volumes, the rapid and continuing evolution of anesthesia in the last years of the twentieth century. Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Cerebral Blood Flow: Physiology and Measurement....Pages 1-16 Update on Anesthetic Pharmacology and the Cerebral Circulation....Pages 17-25 The Afferentation Theory of Cerebral Arousal....Pages 27-38 Hypocapnia and Hypotension—Do They Still have a Place in Neuroanesthesia?....Pages 39-49 Evoked Potentials for the Anesthesiologist....Pages 51-55 Recent Advances in Neuroanesthesia Monitoring—Transcranial Doppler Ultrasonography and Jugular Bulb Venous Oximetry....Pages 57-74 Fluid Management in Neurosurgery: Crystalloids, Hypervolemia and Hemodilution....Pages 75-86 The Anesthetic Management of Intracranial Hypertension....Pages 87-121 Experimental Traumatic Brain Injury: Implications for Clinical Treatment....Pages 123-138 Anesthetic Management of the Head-Injured Patient....Pages 139-151 Secondary Injury after Clinical Traumatic Brain Injury....Pages 153-164 Effects of Anesthetic Agents on Ischemic Brain....Pages 165-177 Anesthesia and the Cervical Spine....Pages 179-186 Anesthetic Considerations for the Patient with Acute Spinal Cord Injury....Pages 187-196 Cardiopulmonary Bypass and the Brain....Pages 197-220 Neuroplasticity: Implications for the Clinical Anesthesiologist....Pages 221-223 Pediatric Neurosurgical Problems....Pages 225-230 Special Anesthetic Considerations for Neurosurgery in the Posterior Fossa....Pages 231-236 Opioids and the Neurosurgical Patient....Pages 237-243 Anesthesia during Stereotactic Techniques and Epilepsy Surgery....Pages 245-253 Anesthetic Considerations for the Management of Major Spine Surgery....Pages 255-264 Anesthesia for Cerebrovascular Surgery....Pages 265-283 Anesthesia for Carotid Endarterectomy....Pages 285-297 Carotid Endarterectomy—Why Are We Still Doing This Operation?....Pages 299-307 Cerebral Ischemia and Protection: Science and Practical Applications....Pages 309-315 Glucose and the Ischemic Brain....Pages 317-329 Mild Hypothermic Brain Protection....Pages 331-343 Intraoperative Pharmacologic Brain Protection....Pages 345-369 Anesthetic Management of the Patient with a Transplanted Organ....Pages 371-379 Perioperative CNS Dysfunction—Diagnosis and Management....Pages 381-386 Anesthetic Management of Interventional Neuroradiologic Procedures....Pages 387-411 Update on Neurologic Intensive Care Medicine....Pages 413-428 Back Matter....Pages 429-430