[Trajectory of anaesthesiology and intensive medicine--history, presence and prospects].

Anaesthesia has been practised in a very simple way in ancient ages already, nevertheless its real progress started during last 50 years, supported with recent neurophysiological achievements, technical development, digital evaluation and telemedicine. Since the end of the 20th century close relations exist with CPR and with contemporary complex features of perioperative medicine. They form fundamental pillars for modern surgery encl.

[Thirty years' of anesthesiology, resuscitation and intensive medicine. News and perspectives].

Anaesthesiology has been implemented into modern perioperative medicine; neuroaxial blocks have become very popular. Short acting and well controllable drugs are administered in continuous infusions as components of total intravenous anaesthesia. Halothane and nitrous oxide are significantly retreating.

Two species of Selaginella cones and their spores from the Bohemian Carboniferous continental basins of the Czech Republic.

Two species of Selaginella cones from the Bohemian Upper Carboniferous continental basins of the Bolsovian and Westphalian D age are described, together with their in situ spores. Two specimens of Selaginella gutbierii yielded microspores closely comparable with the dispersed species Cirratriradites saturnii and megaspores closely comparable with the dispersed species Triangulatisporites vermiculatus. Microspores closely comparable with the dispersed species Cirratriradites annulatus and megaspores resemble the dispersed species Triangulatisporites tertius were isolated from cones of Selaginella cf.

[New developments in emergency resuscitation].

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation at present cannot, and in the future will not, constitute solely a uniform technique. Specific algorithms for sudden primary cardiac arrest have been developed which are to be further refined, and there is no reason why our country should lag behind the advanced nations in this respect. A key role in the outcome is played by other important factors such as instruction and training of the population enabling it to initiate basic life support, short time intervals from cardiac arrest to advanced life support, technical standard of the equipment available, expertise of medical emergency teams and physicians, prophylaxis of multiorgan dysfunction in the post-resuscitation period, and psychosomatic rehabilitation.