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Volume 100: basic sciences in the British Journal of Anaesthesia
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Basic sciences in anaesthesia, and more specifically basic science papers published in the British Journal of Anaesthesia (BJA), provoke widely differing responses. To begin by being provocative, and honest, we have all heard our colleagues (and maybe yourself) question the place of this type of material in the official journal of your medical Royal College. However, most of you would not question the use of the Mapleson breathing circuits,1 the subject of an editorial to mark 50 years since publication,2 or the use of dantrolene in malignant hyperpyrexia.3 These are just two examples of basic sciences applied to the practice of anaesthesia and both were published in BJA. The basic sciences cover a
Professor of Anaesthetic Pharmacology
Department of Cardiovascular Sciences (Pharmacology and Therapeutics Group)
Division of Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Management
University of Leicester
Leicester Royal Infirmary
Leicester LE1 5WW
UK
E-mail: DGL3@le.ac.uk