Fortschritte in der Entwicklung der Medizin erfordern eine immer weiter gehende Spezialisierung, die nicht nur Arzte, sondern in zunehmendem Masse auch das Krankenpflegepersonal erfasst. Durch das Angebot indi vidueller Weiterbildungskurse fur Krankenpflegepersonal in der An asthesie und in der Intensivpflege, in der Psychiatrie und in der Gemeinde krankenpflege wird dieser Tatsache bereits Rechnung getragen. Fur die operative Medizin liegt inzwischen ebenfalls ein Weiterbildungs entwurfvor, der an einigen Kliniken bereits in die Praxis umgesetzt wird. Eine steigende Vielfalt der...

The Neurosurgeons of Berlin are happy to welcome their colleagues from Germany and from foreign countries to our Annual Meeting, being held in this city once again after many years. The external appearance of the city may have changed in many respects since our winter meeting in 1965. This ist not the case, however, as concerns the outstanding quality of its cultural life. We hope that you take as much profit of it as possible. When choosing the scientific themes of this congress, we were led by the idea that problems should be discussed which are not dealt with at special symposia this year....

This volume contains the papers presented at the 26th Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fUr Neurochirurgie, held in Heidelberg, Western Germany, on May 1-3,1975. Since at recent meetings of the German Neurosurgical Society central pathophysiological problems such as "central dysregulation" and "brain edema" had been discussed extensively, it seemed appropriate to choose another major area of cerebral patho- physiology for the meeting in Heidelberg. CEREBRAL HYPOXIA is, as LANGFITT once emphasized, "the final common denominator" of various cerebral lesions with which the neurosurgeon...