OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
An anaesthetist who missed a golden opportunity	20
What airway management information do anaesthetic charts prompt for? An audit of charts from 132 hospitals across Australia and New Zealand	20
Reply to comment on: Massive transfusion experience, current practice and decision support: A survey of Australian and New Zealand Anaesthetists	16
Observational study of the effect of ketamine infusions on sedation depth, inflammation, and clinical outcomes in mechanically ventilated patients with SARS-CoV-2	11
Incidence of postoperative delirium in surgical patients: An observational retrospective cohort study	11
Anaesthesia’s Hobson’s choice: The brave new world of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RAs)	10
Supply of opioids and information provided to patients after surgery in an Australian hospital: A cross-sectional study	8
Uterine atony prophylaxis with carbetocin versus oxytocin and the risk of major haemorrhage during caesarean section: A retrospective cohort study	8
Perioperative pain management in thoracic surgery: A survey of practices in Australia and New Zealand	8
Intraoperative cardiac arrest in the lateral position: Is rapid repositioning always necessary?	7
Cannula cricothyroidotomy in the impalpable neck: An observational study of simulated ‘can’t intubate, can’t oxygenate’ scenarios by teams following a cannula-first algorithm in live anaesthetised pig	7
Beta errors in anaesthesia randomised controlled trials in which no statistical significance is found: Is there an elephant in the room?	6
Culprit allergen prevalence in polyreactive individuals reflects prescription trends: A tool for estimating comparative anaphylaxis risk using the example of neuromuscular blocking agents	6
Returning to work following parental leave: the experiences of Australian anaesthetists	6
A cross-sectional study of the relationship between iron deficiency anaemia and chronic pain	6
Simulated impact of lift car sizes on transport of critical care patients: Informing the design of the New Dunedin Hospital	6
Lung auscultation versus point-of-care ultrasound for assessment of basal lung excursion at maximal inspiration: An exploratory study	6
Comparative strategies for overcoming pseudohypoxaemia: Guided by a case of leukocyte larceny in COVID-19 severe acute respiratory distress syndrome with chronic myelogenous leukaemia	6
Factors associated with poor intraoperative perfusion and postoperative complications in otolaryngological autologous tissue transfers: A single-centre retrospective observational study	6
Anaesthesia healthcare workers’ interactions with COVID-19-positive and -suspect patients: A multi-site observational study from Queensland, Australia	6
A four-year retrospective study of palliative care involvement with Australian intensive care patients	6
Experiences of Australian anaesthetists and anaesthetic trainees of working whilst pregnant: Results of a national survey	6
Awards for papers in anaesthesia and intensive care, 2021	6
Response to “What is a case-control study? Comment on ‘Oral midodrine does not expedite liberation from protracted vasopressor infusions: A case-control study’”	6
Development, implementation and evaluation of a bronchoscopy simulation training program for intensive care Fellows and intensivists in the Netherlands	5

Skin injury: Associations with variables related to perfusion and pressure	5
Methadone and buprenorphine: The search for a non-addictive opioid	5
History of non-physician anaesthesia providers in Papua New Guinea: from heil tultuls to Anaesthetic Scientific Officers	5
Response to comment on: Evaluation of opioid prescribing for surgical patients discharged from three metropolitan hospitals between 2012 and 2020	5
The Bullying in Anaesthesia Registrars Survey (BARS): Does a validated questionnaire improve our understanding of bullying in Australian and New Zealand anaesthesia trainees?	5
The what-if approach to perioperative planning	5
Triggers for medical emergency team activation after non-cardiac surgery	5
Incidents relating to paediatric regional anaesthesia in the first 8000 cases reported to webAIRS	5
The physiologists who ‘oxygenised’ sport	5
2025 ADS/ANZCA/GESA/NACOS clinical practice recommendations on the peri-procedural use of GLP-1/GIP receptor agonists	5
Influence of laminectomy on the lumbosacral cerebrospinal fluid volume: A retrospective magnetic resonance imaging study	5
Abstracts of the Aotearoa New Zealand Anaesthesia Annual Scientific Meeting, 27–30 October 2021, Christchurch, New Zealand.	4
Evaluation of propofol wastage and disposal in routine anesthesia care	4
A comparison of a modified ultrasound-guided minimally invasive scalpel cricothyroidotomy technique with non–ultrasound-guided cannula cricothyroidotomy using phantom difficult neck model simulations	4
Operation clean up: A model for eco-leadership and sustainability implementation	4
Joseph-Auguste Fontaine: A martyr of compressed air therapy	4
Opioids in acute pain: Towards getting the right balance	4
Clinical implications of opioid-induced ventilatory impairment	4
Serum lidocaine (lignocaine) concentrations during prolonged perioperative infusion in patients undergoing breast cancer surgery: A secondary analysis of a randomised controlled trial	4
Effects of polymyxin B haemoperfusion on septic shock caused by Gram-positive bacteria	4
‘On the inhalation of the vapour of Æther, with cases’: The first paper on anaesthesia read before a medical society in Australia	4
Two episodes of delayed emergence in a healthy young man	4
Documentation of informed consent for anaesthesia: A single-site retrospective audit at a rural Australian hospital	4
Variations of nitrous oxide procurement per public hospital bed between Australian states and territories: A cross-sectional analysis	4
Preliminary pharmacokinetics and patient experience of jet-injected dexmedetomidine in healthy adults	3
Effects of sevoflurane versus propofol on cerebral autoregulation during anaesthesia for robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy	3
Incidence and determinants of malpositioning tracheostomy tubes in critically ill adult patients	3
Preoperative cardiopulmonary exercise testing improves risk assessment of morbidity and length of stay following cytoreductive surgery with hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy	3
Perioperative anaphylaxis in Malaysia: A nine-year retrospective study	3
A survey of nitrous oxide usage and knowledge of its environmental effects across healthcare worker groups	3
Thanks to Reviewers	3
Unrecognised drug error and subsequent airway management utilising ultrasound-guided cricothyroidotomy and Rapid-O2® oxygen insufflation	3
New pharmacological perspectives and therapeutic options for opioids: Differences matter	3
Inexpensive home-assembled human skull model for training and learning the peribulbar block technique	3
The association between unanticipated prolonged post-anaesthesia care unit length of stay and early postoperative deterioration: A retrospective cohort study	3
Fibreoptic intubation in children and young people in resource-limited settings: A case series during a humanitarian aid operation in Guinea	3
The validity of self-reported smoking status on day of surgery in a mixed elective surgery population	3
Postoperative temporomandibular joint dislocation reduced by the syringe technique	3
Perioperative management of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: A narrative review	3
Report: The 10th International Symposium on the History of Anesthesia, Kobe City, Japan: 16–18 June 2022	3
Comment on: Iatrogenic uvular injury related to airway instrumentation	2
Hypercarbia and high-flow nasal oxygen use during anaesthesia – risking a failure to thrive?	2
JG Farrell and The Lung: An early description of intensive care delirium in literature	2
‘Opioid’, opioids, pain, language and communication	2
Perioperative provider safety in the pandemic: Development, implementation and evaluation of an adjunct COVID-19 Surgical Patient Checklist	2
Metabolic crisis in maple syrup urine disease: an unusual complication of a rare disease: a case report	2
Risk factors for mortality in severe COVID-19: Exploring the interplay of immunomodulatory therapy and coinfection	2
Treatment of and outcomes from hypotension in the post-anaesthesia care unit: A single-centre retrospective cohort study	2
Oesophageal intubations in anaesthetic practice across Australia and New Zealand: A webAIRS analysis of 109 incidents	2
A single-centre retrospective study of the utility of routine chest X-ray post intrathoracic drain removal in cardiothoracic surgical patients	2

David Borshoff, Paul Sadleir and Stephen Same, The Perfusion Crisis Manual	2
Reference value models for predicting preoperative six-minute walk test in patients scheduled for abdominal and pelvic cancer surgery	2
A weighing method for measuring nitrous oxide leakage from hospital manifold-pipeline networks	2
Dr Gilbert Reynolds Troup: A founder of the Australian Society of Anaesthetists	2
Two sides to every story: Reappraising the early history of liver transplantation at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge	2
Reduction of iatrogenic withdrawal syndrome in high-risk critically ill patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome	2
Long-term outcomes of adults with acute respiratory failure treated with veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation	2