Surgical Research - A Discipline at the Interface of the Basic Sciences and the Clinic

Surgical research - general subjects: surgical research and clinical routine in the new century; the role of research in the training of residents; surgical research and helicobacter pylori infection - a contradiction?; quality of life in animals as a new outcome for surgical research - G-CSF as a quality of life improving factor; 20 years of shock wave research at the institute for surgical research; function of BID - a molecule of the bcl-2 family - in ischemic cell death in the brain; prospective system analysis of the pre- and early hospital care in severe head injury in Bavaria at a population-based level; response of alveolar macrophages to inhaled particulates; L-Arginine - a unique amino acid for improving depressed wound immune function following haemorrhage; chronic porcine two-hit model with haemorrhagic shock and pseudomonas aeruginosa sepsis; endotoxin inactivation by enterally applied colostrum of different composition; stentgrafts in the thoracic aorta - the best application of a new idea - but still in its beginning?; improvement of lung preservation - from experiment to clinical practice. Surgical research - the world of microcirculation: viewing the microcirculation through the window - some 20 years experience with the hamster dorsal skinfold chamber; the marginated pool; blood and plasma viscosity and microvascular function in haemodilution; effects of ultra-purified polymerized bovine haemoglobin on local tissue oxygen tension in striated skin muscle - an efficacy study in the hamster; realisation of a technique for the non-invasive, clinical assessment of microvascular parameters in man - the KM factor; comparison of the new OPS imaging technique with intravital microscopy - analysis of the colon microcirculation; extracorporeal circulation and intestinal microcirculation - pathophysiology and therapeutical options; small-volume resuscitation from haemorrhagic shock by hypertonic saline dextran - conceptional basis and historical background; different optical methods for clinical monitoring of the microcirculation; Munich and Cambridge - a long collaboration in friendship and science; tolerance - then and now; postischemic reperfusion injury to allografts - a case for innate immunity?; adverse drug reactions - mechanisms and assessment. Surgical research - anaesthesiology - inensive care medicine: chaos - no randomness in cardiac physiology; hyperoxia in extreme haemodilution; nephrotoxicity of halogenated inhalational anaesthetics - fictions and facts; searching the ideal inhaled vasodilator - from nitric oxide to prostacyclin; risk and benefit evaluation of drugs - the role of the pharmaceutical industry in Germany; physicians and culture; the influence of Andalusia on German culture.