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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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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)

January 2025

Acute amiodarone-induced pulmonary toxicity in adult ICU patients with new-onset atrial fibrillation—a systematic review

Anesthesia providers' knowledge of medication interference with hormonal contraception: a multisite survey

Anesthesiologists' role in recognition, prevention, and treatment of childbirth-related posttraumatic stress disorder

Anterior quadratus lumborum blocks for postoperative pain treatment following intra-abdominal surgery: a systematic review with meta-analyses and trial sequential analyses

The burden of chronic pain in transgender and gender diverse populations: evidence from a large US clinical database

Does pain influence control of muscle force? A systematic review and meta-analysis

Effect of intraoperative methadone in robot-assisted cystectomy on postoperative opioid requirements: a randomized clinical trial

Evaluating multiplicity reporting in analgesic clinical trials: an analytical review

Factors associated with decision to use and dosing of sugammadex in children: a retrospective cross-sectional observational study

Harnessing the therapeutic effects of nature for chronic pain: a role for immersive virtual reality? A narrative review

Improving obstetric anesthesia care through teaming and improvement science

Intraoperative anesthetic strategies to mitigate early allograft dysfunction after orthotopic liver transplantation: a narrative review

Magnesium and esophageal pain after peroral endoscopic myotomy of the esophagus: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

Management of pain and sedation in the intensive care unit (BMJ state of the art review)

The measurement of “high-impact chronic pain”: limitations and alternative methods

Obstetric anesthesia quality metrics: performance, pitfalls, and potential

A pain research strategy for Europe: a European survey and position paper of the European Pain Federation EFIC

Postoperative sedation in general care wards: a retrospective cohort study

Procedure time-of-day effects on postoperative opioid requirements in children

Quality improvement in the digital age: the promise of using informatics to improve obstetric anesthesia care

Substance use disorders in adolescents and young adults: history and perioperative considerations from the Society for Pediatric Pain Medicine

Sources

Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica (Jan); Anesthesia and Analgesia (Dec-Jan); BMJ, The (Dec); European Journal of Pain (Jan-Feb)

November 2024

Ambulatory anesthesia: current state and future considerations

Artificial intelligence and machine learning in cancer pain: a systematic review

Association between cannabis use and opioid consumption, pain, and respiratory complications after surgery: a retrospective cohort analysis

Cannabis use and anesthesia

Characterizing chronic pain and adverse childhood experiences in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer community

Effects of aromatherapy on quality of life and pain In patients with cancer: a meta-analysis

Effects of oxygenation targets on mortality in critically ill patients in intensive care units

Gastrointestinal pain: a systematic review of temporal summation of pain paradigms and outcomes

Illicitly manufactured fentanyl: anesthesia’s role in the perioperative setting

Impact of intraoperative dexamethasone on perioperative blood glucose levels

Inhaled analgesics for the treatment of prehospital acute pain—a systematic review

Mitigating intraoperative hypotension: a review and update on recent advances

Noise, distractions, and hazards in the operating room

Perioperative association between c-reactive protein, pain catastrophizing and acute pain after total knee arthroplasty: a secondary analysis of two randomised trials

Perioperative regional anesthesia on persistent opioid use and chronic pain after noncardiac surgery

Peripheral nerve blocks for closed reduction of distal radius fractures

Persistent spinal pain syndrome type 2 (evidence-based review)

Prescribing pattern insights from a longitudinal study of older adult inpatients with polypharmacy and chronic non-cancer pain

Radiofrequency for chronic lumbosacral and cervical pain: results of a consensus study using the RAND/UCLA appropriateness method

Remimazolam (review)

A scoping review of the epidemiology and treatment of painful procedures in hospitalized neonates: what has changed in the past three decades?

Switching from inhaled to intravenous general anaesthesia

Treating neuropathic pain and comorbid affective disorders: preclinical and clinical evidence

Sources

Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica (Oct-Nov); Advances in Anesthesia (Dec); Anesthesia and Analgesia (Sep-Nov); BMJ, The (Oct); European Journal of Pain (Oct-Nov); Journal of Pain and Symptom Management (Oct-Dec); Pain Practice (Sep)

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