OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine is 32. 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
Consensus practice guidelines on interventions for lumbar facet joint pain from a multispecialty, international working group	144
Standardizing nomenclature in regional anesthesia: an ASRA-ESRA Delphi consensus study of abdominal wall, paraspinal, and chest wall blocks	124
Pericapsular nerve group (PENG) block provides improved short-term analgesia compared with the femoral nerve block in hip fracture surgery: a single-center double-blinded randomized comparative trial	94
Randomized comparison between pericapsular nerve group (PENG) block and suprainguinal fascia iliaca block for total hip arthroplasty	79
Peripheral nerve block anesthesia/analgesia for patients undergoing primary hip and knee arthroplasty: recommendations from the International Consensus on Anesthesia-Related Outcomes after Surgery (IC	74
Analgesia and anesthesia using the pericapsular nerve group block in hip surgery and hip fracture: a scoping review	68
Mechanisms of action of fascial plane blocks: a narrative review	66
Chronic pain and psychedelics: a review and proposed mechanism of action	60
Statistically significant but clinically unimportant: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the analgesic benefits of erector spinae plane block following breast cancer surgery	56
Transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) for migraine: an fMRI study	54
American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine Local Anesthetic Systemic Toxicity checklist: 2020 version	50
Buprenorphine management in the perioperative period: educational review and recommendations from a multisociety expert panel	48
Prevalence of chronic pain after spinal cord injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis	47
Does the addition of iPACK to adductor canal block in the presence or absence of periarticular local anesthetic infiltration improve analgesic and functional outcomes following total knee arthroplasty	45
Pharmacokinetics of lidocaine after bilateral ESP block	42
Bilateral ultrasound-guided thoracic erector spinae plane blocks using a programmed intermittent bolus improve opioid-sparing postoperative analgesia in pediatric patients after open cardiac surgery:	42
Daring discourse: should the ESP block be renamed RIP II block?	42
Cervical erector spinae plane block: a cadaver study	41
Is the minimal clinically important difference (MCID) in acute pain a good measure of analgesic efficacy in regional anesthesia?	39
Clinical and economic strategies in outpatient medical care during the COVID-19 pandemic	39
Analgesic efficacy of adding the IPACK block to a multimodal analgesia protocol for primary total knee arthroplasty	38
Evaluating the extent of lumbar erector spinae plane block: an anatomical study	38
Transmuscular quadratus lumborum block reduces opioid consumption and prolongs time to first opioid demand after laparoscopic nephrectomy	38
Preoperative pericapsular nerve group (PENG) block for total hip arthroplasty: a randomized, placebo-controlled trial	38
Anatomy of the brachial plexus and its implications for daily clinical practice: regional anesthesia is applied anatomy	36

Anatomy of the thoracic paravertebral space: 3D micro-CT findings and their clinical implications for nerve blockade	36
Accessing care in multidisciplinary pain treatment facilities continues to be a challenge in Canada	34
Continuous PENG block for hip fracture: a case series	33
A multisociety organizational consensus process to define guiding principles for acute perioperative pain management	33
Pain management after open liver resection: Procedure-Specific Postoperative Pain Management (PROSPECT) recommendations	33
Clinical and technical factors associated with knee radiofrequency ablation outcomes: a multicenter analysis	32
Technical considerations for genicular nerve radiofrequency ablation: optimizing outcomes	32