1998 Year Book of Anesthesia and Pain Management

This yearbook covers a number of issues in anaesthesia, including; drug testing in the fields of obstetrical anaesthesia, regional anaesthesia complications and chronic pain management; bi-spectral EEG analysis; Xenon; malignant hyperthermia, atypical pseudocholinesterase, and train of four monitoring; and reports in the medico/legal/ethical arenas featuring physician assisted suicide. Also included is a paper from the American Society of Anaesthesiologists' Closed Claims Study, which examines the variability of expert' opinion and testimony.