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

Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine current awareness bulletin

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September 2025

Adult and pediatric pain management for burn injuries: a global survey of burn care providers

Anesthetic agents as therapeutic tools in breast cancer: insights into cancer progression and recurrence

Association between neuromuscular blockade and its reversal with postoperative delirium in older patients: a hospital registry study

Climate change, emissions of volatile anesthetics, and policy making: the case of desflurane

Diagnostic accuracy of vascular ultrasonography for postanesthesia induction hypotension: a systematic review and network meta-analysis

Distinct neural mechanisms between anesthesia induction and emergence: a narrative review

Emerging technology and the future of perioperative care: perspectives and recommendations from the 2023 Stoelting Conference of the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation

Familiarity of the surgeon-anesthesiologist dyad and major morbidity after high-risk elective surgery

Hemodynamic impact of cipepofol vs propofol during anesthesia induction in patients with severe aortic stenosis: a randomized clinical trial

Insights and trends in artificial intelligence driven innovations in anesthesia: an analysis of global patent activity (2010-2024)

Interventional pain treatment in radiology: an overview of practical approaches

Intraoperative hypotension in patients having major noncardiac surgery under general anesthesia: a systematic review of blood pressure optimization strategies

Intraoperative hypotension prediction: current methods, controversies, and research outlook

Intrathecal drug delivery system in prepontine cistern for patients with intractable craniofacial cancer pain: a multicenter retrospective study

Intravenous lidocaine as a preventative strategy for myocardial injury after noncardiac surgery

Local anaesthetics in interventional radiology: a primer for radiologists on applications and management of complications

Midazolam for sedation of infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (new Cochrane intervention review)

Postoperative nausea and vomiting in children: challenges and some solutions

Propofol versus methohexital in electroconvulsive therapy: impact on treatment efficacy and adverse effects

Racial and ethnic disparities in failure-to-rescue after postoperative sepsis after noncardiac surgery

A randomized controlled trial of sublingual sufentanil in early management of pain in trauma

Sources

Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica (Aug); Anesthesia & Analgesia (Jul-Aug); Burns (Aug); Clinical Breast Cancer (Jul); Clinical Imaging (Sep); Clinical Radiology (Jun); Cochrane Library (Jul); JAMA Surgery (Jul)

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)

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