OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Opinion in Anesthesiology is 5. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Remimazolam for anaesthesia or sedation	80
Epidemiology of sepsis and septic shock	66
Pathophysiology of sepsis	52
Role of regional anesthesia in Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) protocols	51
Opioid free anesthesia: feasible?	48
Ketamine: a versatile tool for anesthesia and analgesia	41
Postoperative delirium – treatment and prevention	38
Septic shock: a microcirculation disease	38
Professionalism: microaggression in the healthcare setting	37
Minimizing postoperative pulmonary complications in thoracic surgery patients	30
Preoperative anxiety	27
The opioid epidemic in pediatrics: a 2020 update	27
Hypotension after spinal anesthesia for cesarean section: how to approach the iatrogenic sympathectomy	26
The anesthesiologist and global climate change: an ethical obligation to act	25
Intraoperative hypotension and neurological outcomes	23
Spinal anesthesia for ambulatory surgery: current controversies and concerns	21
Multidrug-resistant bacteria in ICU: fact or myth	21
Perioperative anaphylaxis: diagnostic challenges and management	20
Combined spinal epidural for labour analgesia and caesarean section: indications and recommendations	19
Soft drugs in anesthesia: remifentanil as prototype to modern anesthetic drug development	19
Enhanced recovery pathways for ambulatory surgery	18
Anesthesia and intraoperative neurophysiological spinal cord monitoring	18
The physiologically difficult airway: an emerging concept	18
Predatory journals and conferences: why fake counts	17
Use of regional analgesia to prevent the conversion from acute to chronic pain	16

Management of postoperative nausea and vomiting in adults: current controversies	16
Doctor and healthcare workers strike: are they ethical or morally justifiable: another view	16
Update on cannabis and cannabinoids for cancer pain	15
Perioperative management of antiplatelet therapy in noncardiac surgery	15
Nulla Per Os (NPO) guidelines: time to revisit?	15
Conjoined twins in 2020 – state of the art and future directions	15
Postoperative delirium: why, what, and how to confront it at your institution	14
Anesthetic technique and cancer surgery outcomes	14
Cannabis, e-cigarettes and anesthesia	13
Current understanding of the fascial plane blocks for analgesia of the chest wall: techniques and indications update for 2020	13
Current state of noninvasive, continuous monitoring modalities in pediatric anesthesiology	13
Old, older, the oldest: red blood cell storage and the potential harm of using older red blood cell concentrates	13
Patient-reported outcomes for ambulatory surgery	13
Pediatric non-red cell blood product transfusion practices: what's the evidence to guide transfusion of the ‘yellow’ blood products?	12
A narrative review and future considerations of spinal cord stimulation, dorsal root ganglion stimulation and peripheral nerve stimulation	12
Sepsis and the microcirculation: the impact on outcomes	12
Virtual reality for pediatric periprocedural care	12
Procedural sedation outside the operating room	11
Hemodynamic support in septic shock	11
Internal clock and the surgical ICU patient	11
Peripheral nerve blockade and novel analgesic modalities for ambulatory anesthesia	11
The future of neuromuscular blocking agents	11
Anesthetic considerations in medical cannabis patients	10
Education and training in ultrasound-guided regional anaesthesia and pain medicine	10
How to communicate between surgeon and intensivist?	10
Graduate medical education in anaesthesiology and COVID-19: lessons learned from a global pandemic	10
Preeclampsia and the anaesthesiologist: current management	10
Perioperative Precision Medicine: Where Are We in 2020?	10
Regional anaesthesia in the elderly patient a current perspective	10
Prehabilitation: the anesthesiologist's role and what is the evidence?	10
Point-of-care ultrasound in pediatric anesthesia: perioperative considerations	10
Inhalational anaesthetics, ozone depletion, and greenhouse warming: the basics and status of our efforts in environmental mitigation	10
Obstetric and perinatal racial and ethnic disparities	10
Pediatric airway management	10
Current concepts in the evaluation and management of preoperative anemia	10
Cerebral metabolic derangements following traumatic brain injury	9
Breast surgery and peripheral blocks. Is it worth it?	9
Blood transfusion and alternatives in Jehovah's Witness patients	9
Diaphragm-sparing brachial plexus blocks: a focused review of current evidence and their role during the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Fibrinogen in traumatic haemorrhage	9
Elderly hip fracture patients: surgical timing and factors to consider	9
To tube or not to tube: a skeptic's guide to nonintubated thoracic surgery	9
Augmented intelligence in pediatric anesthesia and pediatric critical care	9
Nonoperating room anaesthesia for elderly patients	9
Nonoperating room anesthesia for children	8
Sedation/analgesia techniques for nonoperating room anesthesia: new drugs and devices	8
Automation failures and patient safety	8
What we can learn from nonoperating room anesthesia registries: analysis of clinical outcomes and closed claims data	8
Anaesthesia and environment: impact of a green anaesthesia on economics	8
Interventional radiology for the obstetric patient	8

State of the art in clinical decision support applications in pediatric perioperative medicine	8
Same day discharge for craniotomy	8
COVID in obstetrics: labor analgesia and cesarean section	8
Preoperative considerations for Jehovah's Witness patients: a clinical guide	8
Decision aids in anesthesia: do they help?	8
Adequacy of workforce – are there enough critical care doctors in the US-post COVID?	8
Drugs in anesthesia: preventing postoperative nausea and vomiting	8
Sugammadex and neuromuscular reversal: special focus on neonatal and infant populations	8
Perioperative risk assessment – focus on functional capacity	8
Recent advances in understanding cognitive and behavioural alterations after early-in-life anaesthesia exposure and new mitigation/alternative strategies in preclinical studies	8
Medical science faces the post-truth era: a plea for the grassroot values of science	8
Hemadsorption	8
Long-term cognitive and behavioral outcomes following early exposure to general anesthetics	7
Perinatal depression	7
Advances in hemorrhage control resuscitation	7
Perioperative frailty: lessons learned and future directions	7
Cell salvage in trauma	7
A decade later, there are still major issues to be addressed in paediatric anaesthesia	7
Intubation outside of the operating room: new challenges and opportunities in COVID-19 era	7
Immunomodulators in anesthesia	7
Do racial and ethnic disparities lead to the undertreatment of pain? Are there solutions?	7
The role of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics in clinical anaesthesia practice	7
Novel anesthetics in pediatric practice: is it time?	7
Mechanical ventilation in septic shock	7
Point-of-care ultrasound in pregnancy: gastric, airway, neuraxial, cardiorespiratory	7
The Bowtie diagram: a simple tool for analysis and planning in anesthesia	7
The high-risk patient for ambulatory surgery	7
Myocardial injury after noncardiac surgery – an update	7
Donation after circulatory death: opportunities on the horizon	6
Cardiac arrest in older adult patients	6
Advances in anesthesia education: increasing access and collaboration in medical education, from E-learning to telesimulation	6
Perioperative β-blocker use: what is new in 2020?	6
Selective periarticular blocks for postoperative pain after hip and knee arthroplasty	6
Fetal anesthesia: intrauterine therapies and immediate postnatal anesthesia for noncardiac surgical interventions	6
Putting patients first: ambulatory surgery facilitates patient-centered care	6
Diversity of anesthesia workforce – why does it matter?	6
Endocrine emergencies in anesthesia	6
Updates and controversies in anesthesia for advanced interventional pulmonology procedures	6
Preoperative laboratory testing in elderly patients	6
Simulation in obstetric anesthesia: an update	6
Discharging select patients without an escort after ambulatory anesthesia: identifying return to baseline function	6
Monitoring of analgesia level during general anesthesia in children	6
After nectarine: how should we provide anesthesia for neonates?	6
Current concepts in preoperative anemia management in obstetrics	6
Advances in airway management and mechanical ventilation in inhalation injury	6
Practice horizons in pediatric nonoperating room anesthesia	6
Perioperative considerations for adult patients with obstructive sleep apnea	6
Anesthetic management during transsphenoidal pituitary surgery	5
Double standards: why is pulse oximetry standard care, whereas tissue oximetry is not?	5
Ultrasound-guided fascial plane blocks for spine surgery	5
Interventions to improve perioperative neurologic outcomes	5
COVID-19: should we consider it as a septic shock? (The treatment of COVID-19 patients in the ICU)	5
National trends in nonoperating room anesthesia: procedures, facilities, and patient characteristics	5
Wrong-site nerve blocks: evidence-review and prevention strategies	5
Critically appraising the 2018 United Network for Organ Sharing donor allocation policy: adding life boats or rearranging the deck chairs?	5
Coronavirus disease 2019 and cardiovascular diseases: collateral damage?	5
Human factors affecting intraoperative patient safety	5
Peripartum considerations for women with cardiac disease	5
Pediatric obesity and perioperative medicine	5
High turnover for ambulatory orthopedic surgery	5
Regional versus general anesthesia for ambulatory total hip and knee arthroplasty	5
Pediatric trauma center vs. adult trauma center: which is better?	5
Healthcare disparities in trauma: why they exist and what we can do	5
Palliative care, resuscitation status, and end-of-life considerations in pediatric anesthesia	5
Point-of-Care diagnostics of coagulation in the management of bleeding and transfusion in trauma patients	5
Optimization of procedural sedation and analgesia during atrial fibrillation ablation	5
Procedure-specific and patient-specific pain management for ambulatory surgery with emphasis on the opioid crisis	5
Updates in periprocedural management of direct oral anticoagulants	5
Healthcare-associated central nervous system infections	5
Double standard: why electrocardiogram is standard care while electroencephalogram is not?	5
Noble gases and neuroprotection: summary of current evidence	5
Anesthesia for deep brain stimulation: an update	5
Apneic oxygenation in pediatric anesthesia	5
Postoperative nausea and vomiting: risk factors, prediction tools, and algorithms	5
Ketamine in depression and electroconvulsive therapy	5