(Auroy) Resident, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Begin Military Hospital, Saint-Mande, France.
(Narchi) Staff Anesthesiologist, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Hotel Dieu de France Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon.
(Messiah) Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, Bicetre Hospital, Le Kremlin-Bicetre, France.
(Litt) Professor of Anesthesia and Radiology, Department of Anesthesia, USCF, San Francisco, California.
(Rouvier) Professor and Chairman, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Percy Military Hospital, Clamart, France.
(Samii) Professor and Chairman, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Bicetre Hospital, Le Kremlin-Bicetre, France.
From the Departments of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Bicetre Hospital, Le Kremlin-Bicetre; and Begin Military Hospital, Saint-Mande, France. Submitted for publication October 7, 1996. Accepted for publication February 25, 1997. Presented in part at the 37th Annual Meeting of the Societe Francaise d'Anesthesie et Reanimation, September 14-17, 1995, Paris, France. Supported in part by grants from Astra-France Inc.
Address reprint requests to Dr. Samii: Departement d'Anesthesie-Reanimation, Hopital de Bicetre, Universite Paris Sud, 94275 Le Kremlin-Bicetre Cedex, France. Address electronic mail to: Kamran.Samii@kb.u-psud.fr.