(Nishizawa, Yamada, Miyazaki, Ohara, Kaneko) Staff Anesthesiologist, Yokohama City University.
(Yamakawa) Staff of Internal Medicine, Yokohama City University.
(Wiener-Kronish) Professor, University of California San Francisco.
(Kudoh) Associate Professor, Yokohama City University.
Received from Yokohama City University, Department of Anesthesiology, Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Yokohama City, Japan. Submitted for publication March 8, 1996. Accepted for publication June 20, 1996.
Address reprint requests to Dr. Kudoh: Department of Anesthesiology, Yokohama City University School of Medicine, 3-9 Fukuura, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama City 236, Japan. Address electronic mail to: ikudoh@med.yokohama-cu.ac.jp.