R. Spintge – författare

R. Droh Ladies and gentlemen. dear friends and colleagues. we welcome you very cordially to our symposium "Innovations in Management and Technic and Pharmacol­ ogy". We are very glad that you have come to Liidenscheid and we do hope that our programme will fulfil your expectations. We decided to hold this symposium, because it is getting more and more dif­ ficult to select innovations at international congresses around the world which are important for our clinical work. Now and in the future our intention is to present the actual state of technology. management and pharmacology. We would be very glad to receive your suggestions for further symposia. The industry has the same problems as we have. They do not only have to search for those things which can be realized and which are desirable, but also for those things which can be sold. But the industry must also be stimulated by the inventors and by the users, so we want to bring together the industry, the physicians and the inventors for fruitful discussions. And we hope that in the fu­ ture the industry will provide us more quickly with those technical and organiz­ ational aids that we need. We want the indu~try no longer running behind the market but heading the market. At present too many interesting developments are killed by so-called market analysis, in the beliefing that such analysis can always prove what cannot be sold. In anaesthesia many companies are always busy with the same product.

At present there are going on decisive developments in the introduc- tion of physiological thinking into anaesthesiological practice. These innovative motion comprises applications taken from space physiolo- gy, closed-circuit ventilation systems, neurophysiologic control of cir- culation and ventilation together with innovative aspects of circulation physiology and respiration physiology. Involved are innovative aspects of neuromuscular blockade, volatile anaesthetics, cardiorespiratoric monitoring, haemodilution and blood substitution. Special emphasis is put on demonstrating the closed circuit system as a combination of anaesthesia system and monitoring system in daily clinical routine. Additional knowledge and investigation are stimu- lated in the fields of anaesthesia, neurophysiology, pharmacology, space medicine and metabolic physiology using non-invasive methods of monitoring like the evaluation or the neurovegetative status of man and its addaptive changes.Combining these aspects and systems will provide a quite new analytic and synergetic power in the direction of physiological anaesthesia and monitoring which finally will result in a totally new system of a physiological "micro-anaesthesia". We recommend this bock therefore to all anaesthetists, clinical physiologists and pharmacologists as well as to physicists and engi- neers interested in innovative and non-invasive methods in physiologi- of closed systems.