Celebrate World Anaesthesia Day

Anaesthesia Critical Care & Pain Medicine

• Guidelines: Anaesthesia in the context of COVID-19 pandemic

• Two per cent alcoholic chlorhexidine versus alcoholic five per cent povidone-iodine for the prevention of perineural catheter colonisation: The CHLOVEPI randomised, controlled trial

• Perioperative non-invasive haemodynamic optimisation using photoplethysmography: A randomised controlled trial and meta-analysis

British Journal of Anaesthesia

• Long-term survival in older patients given propofol or sevoflurane anaesthesia for major cancer surgery: follow-up of a multicentre randomised trial

• Delirium in older patients given propofol or sevoflurane anaesthesia for major cancer surgery: a multicentre randomised trial

• Towards precision pain medicine for pain after cancer: the Cancer Pain Phenotyping Network multidisciplinary international guidelines for pain phenotyping using nociplastic pain criteria

• Feasibility and outcomes of a real-world regional lung cancer prehabilitation programme in the UK

• Intraoperative lidocaine infusion in patients undergoing pancreatectomy for pancreatic cancer: a mechanistic, multicentre randomised clinical trial

• Association between long-term opioid use and cancer risk in patients with chronic pain: a propensity score-matched cohort study

• Home-based prehabilitation with exercise to improve postoperative recovery for older adults with frailty having cancer surgery: the PREHAB randomised clinical trial

• Inhalation anaesthesia compared with total intravenous anaesthesia and postoperative complications in colorectal cancer surgery: an observational registry-based study^†

• Effect of opioids on cancer survival in patients with chronic pain: a propensity score-matched population-based cohort study

• Association between frailty and patient outcomes after cancer surgery: a population-based cohort study

  Comparison between epidural and intravenous analgesia effects on disease-free survival after colorectal cancer surgery: a randomised multicentre controlled trial

• Opioids and premature biochemical recurrence of prostate cancer: a randomised prospective clinical trial

• Inhalation or total intravenous anaesthesia and recurrence after colorectal cancer surgery: a propensity score matched Danish registry-based study

• Intraoperative opioids are associated with improved recurrence-free survival in triple-negative breast cancer

• Neutrophil extracellular trapping and angiogenesis biomarkers after intravenous or inhalation anaesthesia with or without intravenous lidocaine for breast cancer surgery: a prospective, randomised trial

• Association between intraoperative intravenous lidocaine infusion and survival in patients undergoing pancreatectomy for pancreatic cancer: a retrospective study

• Intraperitoneal ropivacaine reduces time interval to initiation of chemotherapy after surgery for advanced ovarian cancer: randomised controlled double-blind pilot study

• Association between propofol dose and 1-year mortality in patients with or without a diagnosis of solid cancer

BJA Education

• Anaesthesia after neoadjuvant chemotherapy, immunotherapy or radiotherapy

• Imaging in head and neck cancers

• Anaesthesia for transoral robotic surgery

• Anaesthesia for awake breast surgery

• Chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy in adults: management of toxicities and implications for critical care

• Perioperative management for hepatic resection surgery

• Anaesthesia for airway stenting

BJA Open

• Effect of neoadjuvant chemotherapy on intraoperative core temperature in patients with breast cancer: a retrospective cohort study

• Nociceptin/Orphanin FQ receptor expression in primary human umbilical vein endothelial cells is not regulated by exposure to breast cancer cell media or angiogenic stimuli

• Successful epidural fibrin glue patch to treat intracranial hypotension in a patient with bacteraemia and malignancy

• Perioperative blood transfusion in major abdominal cancer surgery: a multi-centre service evaluation and national survey

• Opioids and cancer survival: are we looking in the wrong place?

Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology

• Beyond the epidural: Alternatives to neuraxial labor analgesia

• Post-cesarean section analgesia

• Risk assessment and risk stratification for perioperative complications and mitigation: Where should the focus be? How are we doing?

International Journal of Obstetric Anesthesia

• Obstetric comorbidity index and the odds of general vs. neuraxial anesthesia in women undergoing cesarean delivery: a retrospective cohort study

• The role of total intravenous anaesthesia for caesarean delivery

• Comparison of neonatal outcomes of cesarean sections performed under primary or secondary general anesthesia: a retrospective study

Interventional Pain Medicine

• A proposed nomenclature for spinal imaging and interventional procedural reporting

• Effectiveness of intradiscal platelet rich plasma for discogenic low back pain without Modic changes: A randomized controlled trial

• Interventional pain procedures and vasovagal reactions: Proceed with vigilance

Trends in Anaesthesia and Critical Care

• Perioperative considerations for cancer patients with obesity: A narrative review 

• The effect of alkalinization of oral cavity by sodium bicarbonate mouth wash to decrease ventilator-associated pneumonia in traumatic brain injury patients: A prospective randomized controlled study

• Success of prehospital tracheal intubation during cardiac arrest varies based on race/ethnicity and sex

The Journal of Pain

• Preoperative Predictors of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Outcomes in the 6 Months Following Total Knee Arthroplasty

• Neuronal Nitric Oxide Synthase Suppression Confers the Prolonged Analgesic Effect of Sciatic Nerve Block with Perineural Dexamethasone in Postoperative Pain Model Mice

• Sex Differences, Sleep Disturbance and Risk of Persistent Pain Associated with Groin Hernia Surgery: A Nationwide Register-Based Cohort Study

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