MIDDLE EAST JOURNAL OF ANESTHESIOLOGY Department of Anesthesiology American University of Beirut Medical Center P.O. Box 11-0236. Beirut 1107-2020, Lebanon Editorial Executive Board Consultant Editors Editor-In-Chief: Ghassan Kanazi Assem Abdel-Razik (Egypt) Executive Editors Fouad Salim Haddad Bassam Barzangi (Iraq) Maurice A. Baroody Izdiyad Bedran (Jordan) Editors Chakib Ayoub Dhafir Al-Khudhairi (Saudi Arabia) Marie Aouad Sahar Siddik-Sayyid Mohammad Seraj (Saudi Arabia) Managing Editor Mohamad El-Khatib Abdul-Hamid Samarkandi (Saudi Arabia) Founding Editor Bernard Brandstater Mohamad Takrouri (Saudi Arabia) Honorary Editors Nicholas Greene Musa Muallem Bourhan E. Abed (Syria) Anis Baraka (Emeritus Editor-In-Chief) Mohamed Salah Ben Ammar (Tunis) Webmaster Rabi Moukalled Ramiz M. Salem (USA) Secretary Alice Demirdjian Elizabeth A.M. Frost (USA) The Middle East Journal of Anesthesiology is a The Journal is indexed in the Index Medicus and publication of the Department of Anesthesiology of MEDLARS SYSTEM. the American University of Beirut, founded in 1966 E-mail:
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