British Journal of Anaesthesia

Article	Citations
Learning from individualised variation for evidence generation within a learning health system	229
Breathe–squeeze: pharmacodynamics of a stimulus-free behavioural paradigm to track conscious states during sedation☆	210
Interleukin-1 receptor antagonist, mode of analgesia and risk of Caesarean delivery after onset of labour: a Mendelian randomisation analysis	156
Contents	143
New device, old algorithm? Bridging generations in perioperative coagulation management	116
Associate Editorial Board and cover image caption	111
Histone and HMGB1 released by cancer cells contribute to astrocyte activation in vitro	108
Multicentre analysis of severe perioperative adverse events in children undergoing surgery who were infected with SARS-CoV-2: a propensity score-adjusted analysis	108
Implementation of the TALK© clinical self-debriefing tool in operating theatres. Comment on Br J Anaesth 2024; 133: 853–61	104
Task-sharing with families for early detection of postoperative complications in resource-limited settings	90
Tracheostomy outcomes in critically ill patients with COVID-19: a systematic review, meta-analysis, and meta-regression. Comment on Br J Anaesth 2022; 129: 679–92	86
Persistent postoperative prescribing of opioids: a warning from the west? Comment on Br J Anaesth 2021; 126: 1192–9	85
(Im)precise trial descriptions	85
Anaesthesia drugs, SARS-CoV-2, and the sigma-1 receptor: a complex affair. Comment on Br J Anaesth 2021; 127: e32–4	83
Specifying perioperative nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug use in trials of the effect of anaesthetic technique on oncologic outcomes. Comment on Br J Anaesth 2021; 127: 65–74	80
Associate Editorial Board	78
Associate Editorial Board	76
Ophthalmic regional anaesthesia: ANZCA survey of practice in Australia and New Zealand	76
Genome-wide association study on chronic postsurgical pain in the UK Biobank	75
Impact of neuromuscular block monitoring and reversal on postoperative pulmonary complications in thoracic surgery: a Bayesian analysis of the iPROVE-OLV trial	74
Effect of transauricular nerve stimulation on perioperative pain: a single-blind, analyser-masked, randomised controlled trial	72
Contents	71
The drug titration paradox: more drug does not correlate with more effect in individual clinical data	69
Pathological findings associated with the updated European Society of Cardiology 2022 guidelines for preoperative cardiac testing: an observational cohort modelling study	65
Implementation of a software-based decision support tool for guideline-appropriate preoperative evaluation: a prospective agreement study	64

Opioid-free anaesthesia for anterior total hip replacement under general anaesthesia: the Observational Prospective Study of Opiate-free Anesthesia for Anterior Total Hip Replacement trial	63
The mechanism of action of erector spinae plane block is not enigmatic: it is intravenous local anaesthetic effect by proxy	61
Exploration of the capabilities of large language models in preoperative assessment	60
Ordinal data within the BIS spectrum	59
Lung protective ventilation compared with conventional ventilation strategy reduces postoperative pulmonary complications in patients undergoing major noncardiac surgery: a systematic review and meta-	58
Patient-reported outcomes: validation of the French Quality of Recovery-15 score in cardiac surgery	54
Critical airway-related incidents and near misses in anaesthesia: a qualitative study of a critical incident reporting system	53
Performance analysis of an artificial intelligence algorithm for detection and localisation of tracheal tube position by chest radiography	53
The need for data describing the surgical population in Latin America	52
Shame must change sides: fostering fairness and respect in medicine	52
Effect of clinician attention switching on workload and wrong-patient errors	51
Comparing high-flow nasal oxygenation or standard oxygenation for gastrointestinal endoscopy with sedation. Comment on Br J Anaesth 2021; 127: 133-42	51
Implications for perioperative practice of changes in guidelines on the management of hypertension: challenges and opportunities	49
Climate impacts of anaesthesia	49
Epidemiology of persistent postoperative opioid use after cardiac surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis	48
Intravenous iron administration before cardiac surgery reduces red blood cell transfusion in patients without anaemia	47
Formation of an Airway Lead Network: an essential patient safety initiative	44
Perioperative outcome assessment from the perspectives of different stakeholders: need for reconsideration?	44
Intraoperative opioid strategy in adult cardiac surgery: a service evaluation of two alternative techniques	43
Early quantitative infrared pupillometry for prediction of neurological outcome in patients admitted to intensive care after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest	43
Outcomes of dexmedetomidine versus propofol sedation in critically ill adults requiring mechanical ventilation: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials	43
Feasibility of right ventricular free wall longitudinal strain assessment of contractile reserve in patients undergoing lung resection	42
Review of postoperative extubation in cardiac surgery patients	42
Role of midbrain dopaminergic neurones in post-anaesthetic cognitive recovery in rats	42
Thalamic activity is a neural correlate of connected consciousness	42
Postoperative anaemia and patient-centred outcomes after major abdominal surgery: pathophysiology versus statistics. Comment on Br J Anaesth 2022; 129: 346–54	42
Tranexamic acid for safer surgery: does the evidence support preventative use? Response to Br J Anaesth 2023; 130: e23–e24	42
Performance of ChatGPT on a free-response anaesthesia primary examination	41
Incidence and risk factors of postoperative cardiac complications: an international prospective cohort study	41
Dexamethasone and chronic postsurgical pain: the pendulum meets reductionistic thinking	40
Determinants of tobacco smoking abstinence one year after major noncardiac surgery: a secondary analysis of the VISION study	40
Intraoperative hypotension and postoperative outcomes: just the tip of the iceberg. Response to Br J Anaesth 2024; 132: 804–5	40
Pre-hospital oral transmucosal fentanyl citrate for trauma analgesia: preliminary experience and implications for civilian mass casualty response	40
Reassessing perioperative cardiopulmonary exercise testing: point-of-care cardiac ultrasound and end-tidal pressure of carbon dioxide measurement for scalable individualised risk assessment	40
Volatile anaesthetic toxicity in the genetic mitochondrial disease Leigh syndrome	40
Tetraethylammonium chloride reduces anaesthetic-induced neurotoxicity in Caenorhabditis elegans and mice	39
Accurate diagnosis of heart failure and improved perioperative outcomes	39
Going with the flow: how flow theory can enhance clinical teaching in anaesthesia	38
Recurarisation after sugammadex in children: review of case reports and recommendations	38
Minimal intraoperative blood pressure threshold and postoperative outcomes. Comment on Br J Anaesth 2023; 131: 823–31	38
Simulation-based learning for anaesthesia trainees in low-resource settings: the Vital Anaesthesia Simulation Training (VAST) Foundation Year	37
Fragility of the results from trials comparing neuraxial anaesthesia and general anaesthesia for hip fracture surgery	37
Adverse outcomes after surgery after a cerebrovascular accident or acute coronary syndrome: a retrospective observational cohort study	37
Microfluidics-assisted blood–brain barrier device: a powerful tool to study perioperative neurocognitive disorder	36
‘If you don't take a temperature, you can't find a fever’: relevance to continuous arterial pressure monitoring	36
‘Desire for more analgesic treatment’: pain and patient-reported outcome after paediatric tonsillectomy and appendectomy	36
The ‘long shadow’ of perioperative complications: association with increased risk of death up to one year after surgery	36
Editorial Board	35
Development and evaluation of a mass casualty medicine simulation method using figurines	35
Assessment of haemostatic function in paediatric surgical patients: ‘if you prick us, do we not bleed?’	35

Translating evidence into practice: still a way to go	35
Association between frailty and patient outcomes after cancer surgery: a population-based cohort study	35
A comparison of fascial plane blocks on quality of recovery for minimally invasive thoracic surgery. Comment on Br J Anaesth 2020; 125: 802–10	35
Associate Editorial Board	35
Variation in postoperative pain management after lung surgery in the Netherlands: a survey of Dutch thoracic surgeons	35
Randomised double-blind dose-response study of weight-adjusted infusions of metaraminol for preventing hypotension with combined spinal–epidural anaesthesia for elective Caesarean delivery in the supi	35
Nociception level: what's in a name?	34
Electroencephalogram-based prediction and detection of responsiveness to noxious stimulation in critical care patients: a retrospective single-centre analysis	34
Correspondence in the British Journal of Anaesthesia from 2018–21: article types, authorship, and COVID-19	34
Brainwave viscosity in propofol anaesthesia	33
Quantitative evaluation of aerosol generation during oropharyngeal suction	33
COVID-19, perioperative neurocognitive disorder and SARS-CoV-2-induced dysregulation of the renin–angiotensin system and kynurenine metabolism. Comment on Br J Anaesth 2021; 127: e113–e115	33
Continuous vital signs monitors: a replacement for traditional vital signs?	32
There is (probably) no (meaningful) difference in (most) outcomes between ‘spinal' and ‘general' anaesthesia for hip fracture surgery: time to move forward	32
Associate Editorial Board	32
Risk stratification of individuals undergoing surgery after COVID 19 recovery. Response to Br J Anaesth 2022; 128: e37–9	32
Carbon footprint of inhalation and total intravenous anaesthesia for paediatric anaesthesia: a modelling study. Comment on Br J Anaesth 2022; 129: 231–43	32
Neural pressure support ventilation as a novel strategy to improve patient–ventilator synchrony in adult respiratory distress syndrome	31
There is light at the end of the tunnel, but we are still in the tunnel: universal preoperative SARS-CoV-2 testing and precautions remain vital in paediatrics	31
Editorial Board	31
CArdiovaSCulAr outcomes after major abDominal surgEry: study protocol for a multicentre, observational, prospective, international audit of postoperative cardiac complications after major abdominal su	31
Effects of remifentanil on brain responses to noxious stimuli during deep propofol sedation	31
Relationship between variations in cardiac output and end-tidal CO2 after phenylephrine infusion in anaesthetised patients	31
Renal injury from sevoflurane in noncardiac surgery: a retrospective cohort study	31
Characterising the pulmonary response to prone positioning. Comment on Br J Anaesth 2021; 126: 48-55	31
Recovery after critical illness in COVID-19 ICU survivors	30
Contents	30
DISH10 (Deep Inspiration, Squeeze and Hold for 10 seconds) manoeuvre: a noninvasive treatment for postdural puncture headache	30
Associate Editorial Board	29
Checking in on residents who commenced anaesthesia training during the COVID-19 pandemic to mitigate mental health impacts of their experience	29
Mandatory vaccination of National Health Service staff against COVID-19: more harm than good?	29
Contents	29
Epileptiform discharges, electrographic seizures, and electroclinical seizures during paediatric sevoflurane anaesthesia: a systematic review and proposal for standard definitions	29
Physiologically variable ventilation and severe asthma. Response to Br J Anaesth 2020; 126, e214	29
Determinants of tobacco smoking abstinence one year after major noncardiac surgery: urgent need to increase smoking cessation rates after surgery. Comment on Br J Anaesth 2022; 129: 497–505	29
Epidemiology of perioperative anaphylaxis in France in 2017–2018: the 11th GERAP survey	29
Editorial Board	28
Chronic disabling postpartum headache after unintentional dural puncture during epidural anaesthesia: a prospective cohort study. Comment on Br J Anaesth 2021; 127: 600–7	28
Associate Editorial Board	28
Assessment of a splitter for protective dual-patient ventilation in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome	28
Turning the page on 2021: an eventful year for the British Journal of Anaesthesia	28
Predictability of puncture depth for caudal anaesthesia in paediatric patients: a retrospective analysis	28
Reversal of neuromuscular block with sugammadex compared with neostigmine and postoperative pulmonary complications in obese patients: meta-analysis and trial sequential analysis	28
Improving safety and outcomes in perioperative care: does implementation matter?	27
Use of rocuronium and sugammadex for video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery is associated with reduced duration of chest tube drainage. Comment on Br J Anaesth 2023; 130: e119–27	27
Clinical hypnosis: implications in anaesthesia and perioperative care	27
Ultrasound-guided erector spinae plane block improves analgesia after laparoscopic hepatectomy. Comment on Br J Anaesth 2022; 129: 445–53	27
Sample size calculation in randomised clinical trials. Comment on Br J Anaesth 2020; 125: 802–10	26
Associate Editorial Board	26
Effect of the intraoperative use of the Hypotension Prediction Index on postoperative hypotension in the postanaesthesia care unit. Comment on Br J Anaesth 2021; 127: 681–8	26
Assessing early postoperative benefits of a nerve block: study design is important. Response to Br J Anaesth 2022; 128: e225–6	26
Contents	26
Paradox of compassion: a reflection on depersonalisation during a pandemic	26
William Brooke O’Shaughnessy, an Irishman who introduced anaesthesia to India and brought eastern medicine to Britain	26
Ergonomics in the anaesthetic workplace	25
Standardisation of training in anaesthesiology in Europe: a survey on the impact of the 2022 European Training Requirements in Anaesthesiology	25
Working conditions during pregnancy: a survey of 3590 European anaesthesiologists and intensivists	25
The airway and the British Journal of Anaesthesia: 100 years	25
Association of patient-reported ethnicity on risk of postpartum haemorrhage	25
Tracheal intubation of neonates and infants: advocating rapid adoption of routine videolaryngoscopy in teaching operating theatres	25
Healthcare delivery gaps in pain management within the first 3 months after discharge from inpatient noncardiac surgeries: a scoping review	25
ChatGPT risk of fabrication in literature searches. Comment on Br J Anaesth 2023; 131: e29–e30	25
Identifying studies on medication error in anaesthesiology. Comment on Br J Anaesth 2021; 127: 458–69	25
Preoperative neurologic comorbidity and unanticipated early postoperative reintubation: a multicentre cohort study	25
Ultrasound-guided erector spinae plane catheter versus video-assisted paravertebral catheter in video-assisted thoracic surgery: comparing continuous infusion analgesic techniques on quality of recove	25
Editorial Board	25
Teamwork matters: team situation awareness to build high-performing healthcare teams. Comment on Br J Anaesth 2024; 132: 771–8	25
Editorial Board	24
Comparison of preoperative handgrip strength with revised cardiac risk index and modified frailty index for predicting 30-day in-hospital mortality and morbidity	24
Thoracic spinal anaesthesia for thoracic surgery. Response to Br J Anaesth 2023; 130: e500–1	24
British Journal of Anaesthesia: a leading publication and a registered charity	24
Women in pain medicine	24
The carbon footprint of Bubble-PAPR™: a novel item of personal protective equipment	24
Associate Editorial Board	24
A systematic review of the effect of melatonin on mortality in hospitalised patients with COVID-19 in randomised controlled trials	24
Augmented reality in ultrasound-guided regional anaesthesia: an exploratory study with potential implications for training	23
Proper use of CONTRAfluran™ for optimal desorption and reuse of volatile anaesthetics. Comment on Br J Anaesth 2022; 129: e79–81	23
Editorial Board	23
AI-assisted ultrasound-guided regional anaesthesia for trauma patients: a service evaluation	23
VitalDB: fostering collaboration in anaesthesia research	23

Edward Robinson Squibb: an early anaesthesia pioneer	23
What can ex vivo experiments contribute to clinical haemostasis management?	23
Operating room scheduling: knowing and accepting your limits	23
Multidisciplinary team quality improvement project: working towards safety, quality, and effectiveness on prevention of atrial fibrillation after cardiac surgery	22
Characteristics associated with effectiveness in postoperative delirium research: a systematic review of randomised controlled trials with meta-regression and meta-analysis	22
Hospital variation in quality indicators for patient blood management in total knee and hip arthroplasty: a retrospective cohort study	22
Propofol infusion syndrome (PRIS) incidence and related symptoms in children: a retrospective analysis of a nationwide hospital-based database in Japan	22
Conflating effect size and minimal clinically important difference. Comment on Br J Anaesth 2021; 126: 1029–37	22
From pain intensity to a holistic composite measure for spinal cord stimulation outcomes	22
Improving temporary pacing practice in cardiac critical care	22
Psychology in the operating theatre: the importance of colour and cognition in the redesign of clinical systems for medication safety	21
The quagmire of postoperative delirium: does dose matter?	21
Virtual reality tracheostomy safety course—as good as the real thing?	21
Factors associated with failed epidural blood patch after accidental dural puncture in obstetrics: a prospective, multicentre, international cohort study	21
Intraoperative hypotension is not associated with reduced atrial fibrillation or hospital length of stay. Response to Br J Anaesth 2023; 132: 181–3	21
Validity evidence for the Anesthesia Clinical Encounter Assessment (ACEA) tool to support competency-based medical education	21
Obstetric management strategies for pregnant patients receiving extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and associated maternal–fetal outcomes: a multicentre cohort study	21
Critical appraisal of randomised trials assessing regional analgesic interventions for knee arthroplasty: implications for postoperative pain guidelines development	21
Assistive artificial intelligence for enhanced patient access to ultrasound-guided regional anaesthesia	21
Associate Editorial Board	21
Metaraminol-induced coronary vasospasm masquerading as ST-elevation myocardial infarction during general anaesthesia	21
Efficacy and adverse events profile of videolaryngoscopy in critically ill patients: subanalysis of the INTUBE study	21
Persistent opioid use after surgical treatment of paediatric fracture	20
Corrigendum to ‘Effect of transauricular nerve stimulation on perioperative pain: a single-blind, analyser-masked, randomised controlled trial’ (Br J Anaesth 2023; 130: 458–76)	20
Anaesthetic management and surgical care in a field refugee hospital: experience of the Moroccan 1st Field Medical–Surgical hospital at the Zaatari Camp for Syrian refugees	20
Perioperative sleep in geriatric cardiac surgical patients: a feasibility study using a wireless wearable device	20
Resting-state brain functional connectivity in patients with chronic intractable pain who respond to spinal cord stimulation therapy. Comment on Br J Anaesth 2025; 134: 492–500	20
Two-person verbal check to confirm tracheal intubation: evaluation of practice changes to prevent unrecognised oesophageal intubation	20
A critical approach to research on perioperative pain management	20
Association of frailty with days alive at home in critically ill patients undergoing emergency general surgery: a population-based cohort study	20
Contents	20
Clinically significant emesis in a patient taking a long-acting GLP-1 receptor agonist for weight loss	20
External oblique intercostal block with continuous catheter technique: use in enhanced recovery after pancreatic surgery	20
Procedural sedation competencies: a review and multidisciplinary international consensus statement on knowledge, skills, training, and credentialing	20
A comparison of large language model-generated and published perioperative neurocognitive disorder recommendations: a cross-sectional web-based analysis	20
Editorial Board	20
Clarifying intrinsic efficacy, partial agonism, and full agonism: the case of buprenorphine	20
Psychometric evaluation of the Dutch 40-item Quality-of-Recovery scale	20
Citation of studies by research fraudsters in medical journals	19
Hip fracture characteristics and outcomes during COVID-19: a large retrospective national database review	19
Videolaryngoscopy versus direct laryngoscopy: a bibliometric analysis	19
Esketamine accelerates emergence from isoflurane general anaesthesia by activating the paraventricular thalamus glutamatergic neurones in mice	19
Getting operating theatre metrics right to underpin quality improvement: understanding limitations of NHS Model Hospital calculations	19
Perioperative outcomes in patients with arrhythmogenic right ventriclar cardiomyopathy undergoing noncardiac surgery: a case series and recommendations	19
Effect of a repeated verbal reminder of orientation on emergence agitation after general anaesthesia for minimally invasive abdominal surgery: a randomised controlled trial	19
Cardiac index-guided therapy to maintain optimised postinduction cardiac index in high-risk patients having major open abdominal surgery. Comment on Br J Anaesth 2024; 133: 277–87	19
Induced normothermia ameliorates the procoagulant host response in human endotoxaemia	19
Postoperative nausea and vomiting: is the big little problem becoming a smaller little problem?	19
The posterior dominant rhythm: an electroencephalographic biomarker for cognitive recovery after general anaesthesia	19
Transfusion support during mass casualty events	19
Preparing to implement shared decision making in anaesthesia for hip fracture surgery: a qualitative interview study	18
Preparing for mass casualty events despite COVID-19	18
Airway pressure release ventilation: a survey of UK practice	18
Effect of intrathecal NIS-lncRNA antisense oligonucleotides on neuropathic pain caused by nerve trauma, chemotherapy, or diabetes mellitus	18
Evaluation of a protocol to reduce the environmental impact of anaesthetic gases. Comment on Br J Anaesth 2024; 133: 1489–91	18
Effects of colour-coded, compartmentalised syringe trays on anaesthetic drug error detection under cognitive load: the world through orange-tinted glasses. Comment on Br J Anaesth 2024; 132: 911–7	18
Advance care planning and goals of care discussions in perioperative care: a scoping review	18
Mandatory preoperative SARS-CoV-2 infection screening policies for paediatric surgery	18
Micro-research: opening the innovation door to anaesthesiologists and anaesthesia nurses in China	18
Making (numerical) sense of recent trials comparing balanced and normal saline intravenous solutions in the critically ill	18
Seizure after flumazenil reversal for total intravenous anaesthesia with remimazolam versus propofol: a matched retrospective cohort analysis of a large Japanese nationwide inpatient database	18
Etomidate and its derivatives: time to say goodbye? You say goodbye and I say hello. Response to Br J Anaesth 2025; 134: 11–3	18
Associate Editorial Board and cover image caption	18
Efficiency of inhaled anaesthetic recapture in clinical practice. Comment on Br J Anaesth 2022; 129: e79–81	18
Study of peripheral nerve trauma from subepineural injection of the brachial plexus in pigs. Response to Br J Anaesth 2021; 127: e195–e196	18
Analgosedation in extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: a retrospective UK cohort study	18
Does titration of anaesthesia using population-derived EEG indices overdose older patients?	18
Airway fires during use of high-flow nasal oxygen: a cause for concern	18
Epidural analgesia in labour: separating fact from fiction for autism and neurodevelopment	17
Effect of Hypotension Prediction Index-guided intraoperative haemodynamic care on depth and duration of postoperative hypotension: a sub-study of the Hypotension Prediction trial	17
Use of cell salvage in obstetrics in Germany: analysis of national database of 305 610 cases with peripartum haemorrhage	17
Association between multimorbidity and quality of life after hip replacement surgery: analysis of routinely collected patient-reported outcomes	17
Differential effects of the novel neurosteroid hypnotic (3β,5β,17β)-3-hydroxyandrostane-17-carbonitrile on electroencephalogram activity in male and female rats	17
Genetic polymorphisms of lysophosphatidic acid receptor 1 are associated with the onset of taxane-induced peripheral neuropathy	17
Patterns of opioid prescribing in mechanically ventilated patients with septic shock	17
Early-in-life isoflurane exposure alters resting-state functional connectivity in juvenile non-human primates	17
Long-term evidence of neonatal anaesthesia neurotoxicity linked to behavioural phenotypes in monkeys: where do we go from here?	17
Endoplasmic reticular stress as an emerging therapeutic target for chronic pain: a narrative review	17
Postoperative pain management in Chinese hospitals: a national survey	17
Quantification of lobar gas exchange: a proof-of-concept study in pigs	17
Realising the full potential of anaesthesiology to promote enhanced recovery after surgery programmes in China	17
Perioperative management of long-acting glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists. Comment on Br J Anaesth 2024; 132: 644–8	17
Predicting severity of adverse cardiorespiratory effects of morphine in premature infants: a post hoc analysis of Procedural Pain in Premature Infants trial data	17
Under-dosing and over-dosing of neuromuscular blocking drugs and reversal agents. Response to Br J Anaesth 2024; 132: 461–5	17
Associations of form and function of speaking up in anaesthesia: a prospective observational study	17
Is artificial intelligence ready to solve mechanical ventilation? Computer says blow	17
Morphine and hydromorphone pharmacokinetics in human volunteers: population-based modelling of interindividual and opioid-related variability	17
Authorship patterns in contemporary anaesthesia literature: a cross-sectional study	17
Mechanistic insights into spinal neurones involved in neuraxial opioid-induced pruritus	17
One node among many: sevoflurane-induced hypnosis and the challenge of an integrative network-level view of anaesthetic action	17
Variations in operating room staff compliance with mandatory daily electronic COVID-19 symptom screening	16
Association between preoperative frontal electroencephalogram alpha asymmetry and postoperative quality of recovery: an observational study	16
Prediction of acute kidney injury after cardiac surgery from preoperative N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide	16
Development and validation of metrics for assessment of ultrasound-guided fascial block skills☆	16
Postoperative myocardial injury phenotypes and self-reported disability in patients undergoing noncardiac surgery: a multicentre observational study	16