A complete review of anesthesia for the oral and maxillofacial surgeon Topics in this issue include anesthesia training, determining the appropriate oral surgery anesthesia modality, setting and team, pre-, intra-, and post-operative anesthesia assessment and monitoring, anesthesia equipment, airway evaluation, common medical illnesses that affect anesthesia, pharmacology of intravenous medications and local anesthetics, pediatric sedation and anesthesia, pulmonary and respiratory anesthetic complications, cardiovascular anesthetic complications, endocrine anesthetic complications, and more

Set in France in the 1930s, "L'Art de vivre" evokes the contrasting worlds of a wealthy, socially prominent Parisian couple, and an impoverished struggling American sculptor living in Paris. The aristocratic couple occupy an elegant penthouse apartment and frequent the highest levels of society and government. The artist shares a very humble apartment with his girlfriend and scrapes by, earning a living from the few students he can still attract and the occasional sculpture he can sell.

These worlds, which are physically only a mile apart, come together as a result of an improbable set of circumstances involving thefts, a suspected murder, and a high profile police investigation. Newspapers all over France report excitedly on the mystery surrounding the artist, as his friends try to understand what has become of him. Friends of the aristocratic couple never suspect the obsessive secret that drives them to risk their position and fortune through a daring crime spree.

Fed up with the bullying tactics of an egotistical math professor, Dean Paul Steinman decides to take matters into his own hands to end Peter White's reign of terror on a small University of Wisconsin campus. Things get complicated, however, as another man confesses to "his" murder, additional perpetrators surface, and Steinman's perfect crime begins to unravel in the wake of Detective Frederick Jameson's relentless search to piece together the clues. This academic murder mystery, which consciously references Dostoyevsky and Andre Gide, combines suspense, dark humor, surprising plot twists and a little romance to weave a postmodern fable of over-reaching altruism.

Set in France in the 1930s, "L'Art de vivre" evokes the contrasting worlds of a wealthy, socially prominent Parisian couple, and an impoverished struggling American sculptor living in Paris. The aristocratic couple occupy an elegant penthouse apartment and frequent the highest levels of society and government. The artist shares a very humble apartment with his girlfriend and scrapes by, earning a living from the few students he can still attract and the occasional sculpture he can sell.

These worlds, which are physically only a mile apart, come together as a result of an improbable set of circumstances involving thefts, a suspected murder, and a high profile police investigation. Newspapers all over France report excitedly on the mystery surrounding the artist, as his friends try to understand what has become of him. Friends of the aristocratic couple never suspect the obsessive secret that drives them to risk their position and fortune through a daring crime spree.