I Pharmacological and Toxicological Aspects of Drugs Used for Induction of Hypotension --;Pharmacology of Drugs Used in Elective Hypotension for Neurosurgery --;Specific Vascular Mechanisms of Hypotensive Acting Drugs --;Rebound Arterial Hypertension Following Discontinuation of Sodium Nitroprusside: Aetiology and Prevention --;Is There Still Any Indication for Application of Volatile Anesthetics During Induction of Hypotension in Neurosurgery? --;Interactions of Anesthetic Drugs and Muscle Relaxants with Those Drugs Commonly Used for Controlled Hypotension --;II Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism Under Conditions of Systemic Hypotension --;Direct and Indirect Cerebral Effects of Deliberate Hypotension --;Autoregulation of Cerebral Blood Flow: Effects of Hypotensive Drugs --;The Deleterious Effect of Excessive Tissue Lactic Acidosis in Brain Ischemia --;Interaction Between Blood Glucose Level, Degree of Cerebral Tissue Acidosis and Cellular K+ Release Under Critical Cortical Flow Conditions --;Controlled Hypotension in Neuroanesthesia --;Membrane Stabilization in the Ischemic Brain: A Mode of Protection? --;Blood Flow and Oxidative Metabolism of the Young Adult and Aging Brain --;III Cerebral Electrical Activity During Systemic Hypotension in Neuroanesthesia --;Electrical Monitoring of the Brain in Induced Hypotension --;An Introduction to the Session --;Critical Comparison of Monitoring EEG, Cerebral Function (CFM), Compressed Spectral Array (CSA) and Evoked Response Under Conditions of Reduced Cerebral Perfusion --;The Use of Somatosensory Evoked Potentials in Neurosurgical Practice --;Recent Aspects of Hypotensive Drug Effects on Intracranial Pressure --;IV Morphological Aspects of Controlled Hypotension --;The Neuropathology of Stagnant Hypoxia --;Structural Changes in the Brain During Critical Reduction of Blood Flow or Oxygen Tension --;The Significance of Low O2 Tensions in the Brain Cortex for Occurrence of Metabolic Alterations Under Critical Flow Conditions --;V Clinical Aspects of Controlled Hypotension --;Variations of the Instantaneous Heart Rate During Neuroleptanesthesia with Concomitant Continuous Infusions of Althesin and Sodium Nitroprusside --;Limitations of Induced Hypotension --;Pro and Contra Hypotension in Neurosurgery --;Chairman's Summary --;List of Principal Contributors.
This book is based on the proceedings of a conference held in Tubingen, West Germany, in 1981, at which anesthesiologists, neuro- surgeons, pathologists and neurophysiologists met to consider the place of controlled hypotension in neurosurgery.