Labor Epidural Education and Hispanic Ethnicity,   A language-concondant, education program regarding labor epidurals during the first stage of labor, in addition to the routine prenatal education is feasible and does not cause any negative effect. Such an intervention increases epidural use among Hispanic but not non-Hispanic women. It also reduces misconceptions regarding epidural analgesia in both Hispanic and non-Hispanic women.
	FREE Emergence and Postoperative Atelectasis   Thirty patients undergoing nonabdominal surgery under general anesthesia were randomized to maintained (7 or 9 cm H20) or positive end-expiratory pressure before given 100% oxygen for emergence preoxygenation. Postoperative atelectasis (assessed by computed tomography) was small with no effect on oxygenation, whether or not positive end-expiratory pressure was used during emergence.