Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Papers
(The H4-Index of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine is 24. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
On the need for accuracy and consistency in cadaveric studies between technique and imaging: are we missing “bull’s eye”?70
Surgical incisional injury to discrete small cutaneous nerves is a significant contributor to chronic postsurgical pain68
Reply to letter to the editor: Ultrasonography versus palpation for spinal anesthesia in obese parturients undergoing cesarean delivery: a randomized controlled trial66
ASRA 2024 PM Scientific Abstracts57
Reply to Goyal and colleagues56
Characterization and evaluation of an institutional neuraxial antithrombotic clinical decision support tool53
Pericapsular nerve group (PENG) block: what do we have still to learn for recommending its use in clinical practice?50
Is the non-inferiority conclusion true?42
Ultrasound-guided superficial cervical plexus block reduces opioid consumption in patients undergoing craniotomy via suboccipital retrosigmoid approach: a randomized controlled trial41
Sentiment analysis of pain physician reviews on Healthgrades: a physician review website36
Validating a home-based proxy- and self-administered quantitative sensory testing in youth and young adults undergoing regional anesthesia for orthopedic procedures35
On the nomenclature of obturator nerve block approach33
Evaluating residual anti-Xa levels following discontinuation of treatment-dose enoxaparin in patients presenting for elective surgery: an infographic32
Midclavicle block and clavipectoral fascia block: should we change the block or just the name?31
Mechanism of chronic iatrogenic CSF leak following dural puncture-ventral dural leak: case report31
Is there a correlation between Altmetric Attention Scores and citation count in Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine journal articles?31
Outpatient continuous adductor canal block (CACB) for total knee arthroplasty: a double-blinded randomized placebo-controlled trial31
Pain catastrophizing: a trait or a state?29
Physical functioning following spinal cord stimulation: a systematic review and meta-analysis27
ASRA Pain Medicine Consensus Practice Infection Control guidelines26
Evaluating the utility of large language models in generating search strings for systematic reviews in anesthesiology: a comparative analysis of top-ranked journals25
Timing of intravenous dexamethasone and analgesia after brachial plexus block: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial25
Primary spoken language and regional anaesthesia use in total joint arthroplasty24
Effect of virtual reality (VR) therapy on pain sensation in patients undergoing hand surgery under ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia: a randomized controlled trial24
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