Table of Contents
Editorial
| Editorial | |
| Christina Lundgren | 4 |
Paediatric Anaesthesia
| Neonatal anaesthesia | |
| C J Coté | 6-11 |
| Epidermolysis bullosa in children: pathophysiology, anaesthesia and analgesia | |
| Jenny Thomas | 12-15 |
| Anaesthesia and the paediatric patient with neuromuscular disease | |
| Elsa Dekker | 18-21 |
Cardiac Anaesthesia
| Neuromonitoring during cardiac surgery | |
| B Jungwirth | 23-24 |
| Cardiopulmonary bypass in infants and children: what’s new? | |
| A Y Schure | 25-27 |
| Issues in cardiopulmonary bypass | |
| S Robertson | 28-29 |
| Anaesthesia for transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) in severe aortic stenosis | |
| J Bence | 30-31 |
The Diseased Kidney
| Anaesthesia for kidney transplantation | |
| B Jungwirth | 33-34 |
| Contrast nephropathy: can we see the whole picture | |
| M Raff | 35-41 |
Anaesthesia for Vascular Surgery
| Peri-operative myocardial infarction | |
| B M Biccard | 44-46 |
| Endothelial dysfunction in the peri-operative setting | |
| B Riedel | 47-48 |
| How does vascular disease associated with retroviral infection differ from atherosclerosis? | |
| R Barry | 51-53 |
Fluids and Bleeding
| Peri-operative diagnosis and treatment of platelet disorders | |
| S A Kozek-Langenecker | 55-56 |
| Autologous stem cell transplantation in multiple myeloma | |
| V Louw, M J Webb | 57 |
| Haemodynamic stability requires accurate assessment of fluid status | |
| G A Richards | 58-59 |
The Brain and Neuroanaesthesia
| Subarachnoid haemorrhage disease and the anaesthetist | |
| C Daniel | 60-68 |
| Long term effects of anaesthesia: neurotoxicity at the extremes of age | |
| L Zuccherelli | 70-74 |
Obstetric Anaesthesia
| The changing profile of patients presenting for Caesarean section in South Africa | |
| M G Senekal | 76-78 |
| Anaesthesia for the HIV-positive parturient | |
| P R Penfold | 79-80 |
| Drugs for Caesarean section: what makes them dangerous? | |
| Z Farina | 81 |
Regional Anaesthesia
| Local anaesthetic agent toxicity | |
| H Van Rooyen | 83-88 |
Sedation
| Paediatric sedation guidelines: where we came from, where we are now, and current drug controversies | |
| C J Coté | 92-95 |
| Sedation in the ICU | |
| A M Travers | 96-100 |
| Dexmedetomedine in sedation | |
| Pieter Kruger | 101-103 |
| The travelling sedationist | |
| J A Roelofse | 105-106 |
Pain
| The transition from acute to chronic pain | |
| G Lamacraft | 108-110 |
| Are NSAIDs inferior to other analgesics? | |
| C L Odendaal | 111-114 |
Techniques
| Intravenous anaesthesia for thoracic procedures | |
| R V Purugganan | 116-120 |
| Target controlled infusion anaesthesia in children | |
| G Wilson | 124-126 |
Resuscitation Update
| Update on neonatal resuscitation | |
| A Y Schure | 127-129 |
| The rational use of recombinant factor VIIa in the treatment of major intractable bleeding in the trauma patient | |
| J Strydom | 130-133 |
| Resuscitation and transport by emergency care workers | |
| C B Campbell, R G Campbell | 135-137 |
National Health Insurance Debate
| National Health Insurance debate: SASA 2010 | |
| D H Van Zijl | 138 |
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