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.

Cerebral Blood Flow: Physiology and Measurement.- Update on Anesthetic Pharmacology and the Cerebral Circulation.- The Afferentation Theory of Cerebral Arousal.- Hypocapnia and Hypotension-Do They Still Have a Place in Neuroanesthesia?.- Evoked Potentials for the Anesthesiologist.- Recent Advances in Neuroanesthesia Monitoring-Transcranial Doppler Ultrasonography and Jugular Bulb Venous Oximetry.- Fluid Management in Neurosurgery: Crystalloids, Hypervolemia and Hemodilution.- The Anesthetic Management of Intracranial Hypertension.- Experimental Traumatic Brain Injury: Implications for Clinical Treatment.- Anesthetic Management of the Head-Injured Patient.- Secondary Injury after Clinical Traumatic Brain Injury.- Effects of Anesthetic Agents on Ischemic Brain.- Anesthesia and the Cervical Spine.- Anesthetic Considerations for the Patient with Acute Spinal Cord Injury.- Cardiopulmonary Bypass and the Brain.- Neuroplasticity: Implications for the Clinical Anesthesiologist.- Pediatric Neurosurgical Problems.- Special Anesthetic Considerations for Neurosurgery in the Posterior Fossa.- Opioids and the Neurosurgical Patient.- Anesthesia During Stereotactic Techniques and Epilepsy Surgery.- Anesthetic Considerations for the Management Of Major Spine Surgery.- Anesthesia for Cerebrovascular Surgery.- Anesthesia for Carotid Endarterectomy.- Carotid Endarterectomy-Why Are We Still Doing This Operation?.- Cerebral Ischemia and Protection: Science and Practical Applications.- Glucose and the Ischemic Brain.- Mild Hypothermic Brain Protection.- Intraoperative Pharmacologic Brain Protection.- Anesthetic Management of the Patient With A Transplanted Organ.- Perioperative CNS Dysfunction-Diagnosis and Management.- Anesthetic Management of Interventional NeuroradiologicProcedures.- Update on Neurologic Intensive Care Medicine.