Recent Advances in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care: Volume 24

Jeremy N. Cashman is a Consultant Anaesthetist at St George's Hospital, London and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of London. R. Michael Grounds is a Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine at St George's Hospital, London and an Honorary Reader in Intensive Care Medicine at the University of London.

1. The role of cardiopulmonary exercise testing in preoperative evaluation of surgical patients Paul Older and Adrian Hall; 2. Oesophagectomy for cancer Katherine Sherry; 3. Vascular surgery Matt Thompson and Ian Loftus; 4. Anaesthesia for the elderly Christopher Dodds; 5. Deaths following anaesthesia: lessons from NCEPOD Anthony Gray; 6. Pelvic and acetabular trauma Shamim Umarji and Martin Bircher; 7. Transoesophageal echocardiography S. Nicholas Fletcher; 8. Levosimendan Scott Mercer and Andrew Rhodes; 9. Critical care outreach: six years on Lesley Durham and Brian Cuthbertson; 10. Critical care and biological disasters: lessons learned from SARS and pandemic influenza planning Michael D. Christian, Thomas E. Stewart and Stephen E. Lapinsky; 11. Evaluating clinical performance Hannah Barrett, Alison D. Bullock and Julian F. Bion; 12. Non-technical skills and anaesthesia Rona Patey; 13. Simulators in anaesthetic training to enhance patient safety Peter Dieckmann and Marcus Rall.