IN THIS ISSUE of the Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia, we resurrect the section on "Emerging Technology." Doing this is timely and relevant. As anesthesiologists participating in a generation of rapid progress in all areas of medicine, many of us believe that we are at a pivotal point in technological progress. Everywhere we turn, we see advances of which we would barely have dreamt 20 years ago: advanced robotic surgery, functional magnetic resonance imaging, minimally invasive cardiac output measurement, 3-dimensional echocardiography (OK, maybe we were dreaming of that one), and multiwavelength oximetry, just to name a few.
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