Editorial

Welcome to Update in Anaesthesia No 16! We are delighted with the feedback we have been receiving about Update and always look forward to receiving your comments and ideas by mail or email. We have responded to a request for some articles about critical care topics and have included two papers in this edition.

Recently we have been fortunate to receive the support of the Royal College of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland who have allowed us to reprint some of their material published at National Meetings. We have also been given permission to use abstracts from the journal Anaesthesia and would like to thank Professor Harmer, Editor in Chief, for his support. The Association of Anaesthetists have also given us a generous educational grant which will allow us to print cdroms containing the back issues of Update in Anaesthesia, and a variety of other anaesthesia and critical care material. These will be sent out to readers later in the year. We would like to thank Dr Peter Wallace, the President of the Association, for their kind support.

Readers wishing to get paper copies of previous editions of Update in Anaesthesia can purchase issues 6 - 12 in a bound set from Teaching Aids at Low Cost (TALC). TALC PO Box 49, St Albans, Herts, AL1 5TX, UK. Telephone +44 (0) 1727 853869, Fax+44 (0) 1727 846852, e-mail: talc@talcuk.org

Dr Iain Wilson  
Iain.Wilson@rdehc-tr.swest.nhs.uk