Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Papers
(The H4-Index of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine is 27. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Characterization and evaluation of an institutional neuraxial antithrombotic clinical decision support tool181
Timing of intravenous dexamethasone and analgesia after brachial plexus block: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial133
Not a single spinal cord injury due to direct needle trauma in over 1.3 million epidural steroid injections131
ASRA Pain Medicine consensus guidelines on the management of the perioperative patient on cannabis and cannabinoids: an infographic119
Mechanism of chronic iatrogenic CSF leak following dural puncture-ventral dural leak: case report98
Pericapsular nerve group (PENG) block: what do we have still to learn for recommending its use in clinical practice?67
On the need for accuracy and consistency in cadaveric studies between technique and imaging: are we missing “bull’s eye”?65
Reply to letter to the editor: Ultrasonography versus palpation for spinal anesthesia in obese parturients undergoing cesarean delivery: a randomized controlled trial63
Sentiment analysis of pain physician reviews on Healthgrades: a physician review website60
Evaluating residual anti-Xa levels following discontinuation of treatment-dose enoxaparin in patients presenting for elective surgery: an infographic57
ASRA 2024 PM Scientific Abstracts52
Is there a correlation between Altmetric Attention Scores and citation count inRegional Anesthesia and Pain Medicinejournal articles?51
Is the non-inferiority conclusion true?47
Prospective cohort study on the trajectory and association of perioperative anxiety and postoperative opioid-related outcomes43
Proposal of a clinical approach to perioperative visceral pain38
Physical functioning following spinal cord stimulation: a systematic review and meta-analysis37
Reply to Goyal and colleagues33
Evaluating the utility of large language models in generating search strings for systematic reviews in anesthesiology: a comparative analysis of top-ranked journals33
Ultrasound-guided superficial cervical plexus block reduces opioid consumption in patients undergoing craniotomy via suboccipital retrosigmoid approach: a randomized controlled trial32
Primary spoken language and regional anaesthesia use in total joint arthroplasty31
Predictive factors affecting treatment success in ganglion impar block applied in chronic coccygodynia30
Effect of virtual reality (VR) therapy on pain sensation in patients undergoing hand surgery under ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia: a randomized controlled trial29
Crystallization of mixtures of local anesthetics with and without select adjuvants: a semiquantitative light microscopy analysis28
Chronic pain, disease and mortality: will we follow the path of Noah or Pharaoh?28
Real-world study of intranasal ketamine for use in patients with refractory chronic migraine: a retrospective analysis27
Letter to the editor: regarding ‘Does the addition of iPACK to adductor canal block in the presence or absence of periarticular local anesthetic infiltration improve analgesic and functional outcomes 27
Fascial plane blocks: a narrative review of the literature27
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