Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Papers
(The H4-Index of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine is 26. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Surgical incisional injury to discrete small cutaneous nerves is a significant contributor to chronic postsurgical pain82
Reply to letter to the editor: Ultrasonography versus palpation for spinal anesthesia in obese parturients undergoing cesarean delivery: a randomized controlled trial80
ASRA 2024 PM Scientific Abstracts75
Reply to Goyal and colleagues72
Pericapsular nerve group (PENG) block: what do we have still to learn for recommending its use in clinical practice?49
Validating a home-based proxy- and self-administered quantitative sensory testing in youth and young adults undergoing regional anesthesia for orthopedic procedures49
On the nomenclature of obturator nerve block approach42
ASRA Pain Medicine Consensus Practice Infection Control guidelines38
Outpatient continuous adductor canal block (CACB) for total knee arthroplasty: a double-blinded randomized placebo-controlled trial38
Evaluating residual anti-Xa levels following discontinuation of treatment-dose enoxaparin in patients presenting for elective surgery: an infographic36
Is there a correlation between Altmetric Attention Scores and citation count in Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine journal articles?34
ASRA Pain Medicine consensus guidelines on the management of the perioperative patient on cannabis and cannabinoids: an infographic32
Midclavicle block and clavipectoral fascia block: should we change the block or just the name?32
Characterization and evaluation of an institutional neuraxial antithrombotic clinical decision support tool30
Effect of virtual reality (VR) therapy on pain sensation in patients undergoing hand surgery under ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia: a randomized controlled trial30
Sentiment analysis of pain physician reviews on Healthgrades: a physician review website30
Prospective cohort study on the trajectory and association of perioperative anxiety and postoperative opioid-related outcomes29
Thoughts on spinal cord stimulation for non-surgical low back pain28
Pain catastrophizing: a trait or a state?28
Primary spoken language and regional anaesthesia use in total joint arthroplasty28
Physical functioning following spinal cord stimulation: a systematic review and meta-analysis28
On the need for accuracy and consistency in cadaveric studies between technique and imaging: are we missing “bull’s eye”?28
Evaluating the utility of large language models in generating search strings for systematic reviews in anesthesiology: a comparative analysis of top-ranked journals27
Response to: “Regional anesthesia in the patient receiving antithrombotic or thrombolytic therapy: American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine Evidence-Based Guidelines (fifth edition)” 27
To trial or not to trial before peripheral nerve stimulation for chronic pain: a retrospective multicenter comparative analysis of temporary-to-permanent and direct-to-permanent implantation approache27
Analgesic efficacy of the ultrasound-guided pericapsular nerve group (PENG) block for ambulatory hip arthroscopy: a randomized controlled double-blind trial26
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