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HSC Medicine, Dentistry and Healthcare Sciences Current Awareness Bulletins: Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine

Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine current awareness bulletin

Frequency: Bi-monthly

Links to articles in the current and previous 2 issues of this bulletin are displayed below.

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July 2025

The adverse effects associated with ibuprofen use after major orthopaedic surgeries (PERISAFE)

Association of opioid disposal practices with parental education and a home opioid disposal kit following pediatric ambulatory surgery

Bleeding complications, transfusion, and acute care costs after major arthroplasty in patients with hereditary bleeding disorders: a national healthcare database analysis

Cannabinoids and general anesthetics: revisiting molecular mechanisms of their pharmacological interactions

The consultant anaesthetist who established a support group for autistic doctors

Effectiveness of amino acid supplementation in preventing acute kidney injury following cardiac surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

Endotracheal tube sizes during surgical procedures in adult patients

Family-related factors in children and adolescents with chronic pain: a systematic review

Generalisation of placebo and nocebo effects: current knowledge and future directions

Headaches in over 12s: diagnosis and management (updated NICE guideline CG150)

Nerve block for pain management in pediatric patients undergoing cleft lip and palate repair: a systematic review and network meta-analysis

Opioid therapy in chronic pain: assessment of clinical outcomes and relationships with endocrine biomarkers

Opportunities for chronic pain self-management: core psychological principles and neurobiological underpinnings

Pharmacotherapy and non-invasive neuromodulation for neuropathic pain

Regional analgesia techniques for postoperative pain after breast cancer surgery: a network meta‐analysis (new Cochrane intervention review)

Retrospective assessment of endometriosis pain over the life course (ComPaRe-Endometriosis)

A scoping review of interdisciplinary care programs for women with persistent pelvic pain

Stress-related brain alterations in chronic pain

Targeted muscle reinnervation for managing limb amputation pain (new NICE guideline IPG804)

Ultrasound guidance versus anatomical landmarks for neuraxial anaesthesia in adults (new Cochrane intervention review)

Sources

Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica (Jul); Anesthesia & Analgesia (Jun); sBMJ, The (May); Cochrane Library (May-Jun); European Journal of Pain (Jul); Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery (Jun); Lancet, The (May); Lancet Neurology, The (May); NICE website (May-Jun)

May 2025

Advances in diagnosis, classification, and management of pain in Parkinson's disease

Association between interoceptive accuracy and pain perception: insights from trained musicians and athletes

Association of chronic pain with frailty and pre-frailty in older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Bringing endometriosis to the road of contemporary pain science

Chronic postsurgical pain raises risk of dementia

Clinical rating scales for assessing pain in newborn infants (new Cochrane methodology review)

Conversational agents to support pain management: a scoping review

Deep brain stimulation under general anaesthesia for Parkinson's disease: a retrospective evaluation of perioperative events and anaesthetic management after switching away from conscious sedation

The efficacy and safety of botulinum neurotoxin type A in treating chronic low back pain: a systematic review, meta-analysis, trial sequential analysis, and meta-regression

Non‐pharmacological and non‐surgical treatments for low back pain in adults: an overview of Cochrane reviews

Painful Mondays: exploring weekly sleep variations and pain perception in healthy women—an experimental study

Physician associates and anaesthetic associates in UK: rapid systematic review of recent UK based research

Postoperative pain in vitreoretinal surgery with combined regional-general anesthesia versus general anesthesia: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Prolonging peripheral nerve block duration: current techniques and future perspectives

Role of serum brain-derived neurotrophic factor as a biomarker of chronic pain in older adults

Sex and sleep quality effects on the relationship between sleep disruption and pain sensitivity

Training programmes for healthcare professionals in managing epidural analgesia: a scoping review

Transversus abdominis plane (TAP) blocks for prevention of postoperative pain in women undergoing laparoscopic and robotic gynaecological surgery (new Cochrane intervention review)

Sources

Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica (Apr-May); American Journal of Ophthalmology (Mar); Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics (Apr); BJOG (May); BMJ, The (Mar); Cochrane Library (Mar-Apr); European Journal of Pain (Apr-May); Lancet Neurology, The (Apr)

March 2025

Anaesthesia teams´ perception of mental wellbeing, the psychosocial work environment and patient safety culture

Anesthetic management for large vessel occlusion acute ischemic stroke with tandem lesions

Assessing signs of central sensitization: a critical review of physiological measures in experimentally induced secondary hyperalgesia

Cannabinoids for acute postoperative pain management

Clinical practice and outcomes in European pediatric cardiac anesthesia: a secondary analysis of the APRICOT and NECTARINE studies

Coagulation and platelet function in cold-stored whole blood on missions in a helicopter emergency service

Cocaine to prevent bleeding during nasotracheal intubation: a systematic review

Common interventional procedures for chronic non-cancer spine pain: a systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomised trials

See also: Commonly used interventional procedures for non-cancer chronic spine pain: a clinical practice guideline

A discrete choice experiment: understanding patient preferences for managing chronic non-cancer pain

Exploring management reasoning when discharging high-risk postoperative patients from the post-anaesthesia care unit

Hypotension after anesthesia induction in patients taking tricyclic antidepressants—a case series

The impact of pain on everyday activities of people with hypermobility spectrum disorders or hypermobility Ehlers Danlos syndrome

Intraoperative opioid administrations, rescue doses in the post-anaesthesia care unit and clinician-perceived factors for dose adjustments in adults: a Danish nationwide survey

Moving towards the use of artificial intelligence in pain management

Neuromodulation in chronic pain management: addressing persistent doubts in spinal cord stimulation

Post-injury use of opioid analgesics in patients with traumatic injury: a registry-based study

Signs of hyperpathia in chronic peripheral neuropathic pain

Technical aspects of neuraxial analgesia during labor and maternity care: an updated overview

What matters to mothers: a qualitative exploration of pain and recovery after cesarean section

Sources

Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica (Feb-Mar); BMJ, The (Feb); European Journal of Pain (Mar); Journal of Anesthesia, Analgesia and Critical Care (Jan-Feb); Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery (Feb)

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