OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Best Practice & Research-Clinical Anaesthesiology is 2. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Advances in pediatric neuroanesthesia practices	45
Procedural sedation outside the operating room: Challenges, guidelines, and future directions	41
Regional anaesthesia for ambulatory surgery	35
Resuscitative Transesophageal Echocardiography	35
Editorial Board	34
Postpartum hemorrhage assessment and targeted treatment	33
Post-dural puncture headache diagnosis and management	30
Optimising recovery after caesarean delivery	24
Managing a perioperative medicine program	23
Spinal sonography and central neuraxial blocks	23
Spinal hypotension in obstetrics: Context-sensitive prevention and management	23
Prehabilitation before surgery: Is it for all patients?	22
Challenges of (postoperative) cancer patients in the ICU	21
Local anaesthetics and regional anaesthesia and outcome in cancer patients – What is the clinical evidence?	20
Advances in procedural sedation: From traditional agents to novel pharmacologic approaches	20
Environmentally responsible mask induction	19
Total joint replacement in ambulatory surgery	19
Neuraxial analgesia in labour and the foetus	18
The patient with congenital heart disease in ambulatory surgery	18
Anesthesia for ambulatory surgery	18
Spinal anaesthesia in children: A narrative review	18
Enhanced recovery after surgery: Current status and future progress	17
Navigating coagulopathy in obstetric hemorrhage: The role of point-of-care testing	16
Beyond the epidural: Alternatives to neuraxial labor analgesia	14
Procedural sedation and analgesia in clinical practice: From historical development to modern care	14

Volatile anaesthetics and PFAS forever chemicals: A critical gap in environmental impact assessments	13
Optimizing patients with substance use disorder for cardiac surgery	12
Women at risk: An interdisciplinary perspective on optimizing postpartum hemorrhage systems	11
“Thoracic anesthesia in patients with airborne disease”	11
Cardiac prehabilitation: Is there a role in cardiac surgery	11
Preoperative fasting in children. The evolution of recommendations and guidelines, and the underlying evidence	11
Post-cesarean section analgesia	10
What's new in pediatric critical care?	10
Volatile capture technology in the operating room: How does it work, what are the technical limitations and what does it mean for clinical practice?	10
Principles for minimizing oxygen debt: can they translate to clinical application and improve outcomes?	10
Managing bottlenecks in the perioperative setting: Optimizing patient care and reducing costs	10
The diabetes patient for ambulatory surgery	10
Intrathecal opioids for the management of post-operative pain	10
Adjuvants for balanced anesthesia in ambulatory surgery	9
Controversies in anesthesia-induced developmental neurotoxicity	9
ESAs in perioperative anemia management: Who, what, how and why?	9
Greening anesthesia – From basic science to practical guidelines	8
Non-neuraxial labour analgesia	8
Neuraxial labor analgesia: Initiation techniques	8
Environmental impact of propofol: A critical review of ecotoxicity and greenhouse effects	7
Procedural Sedation in High-Risk Patients	7
Cesarean delivery: Clinical updates	7
Nitrous oxide waste and why we should abandon reticulated delivery systems	7
Advantages and disadvantages of desflurane versus sevoflurane	7
Editorial Board	7
Risk assessment and risk stratification for perioperative complications and mitigation: Where should the focus be? How are we doing?	7
Blood transfusion and patient blood management in cancer patients	6
Preface	6
An overview of procedural sedation guidelines and their differences	6
Maternal sepsis	6
Challenges in acute postoperative pain management in thoracic surgery	6
Current indications for spinal anesthesia-a narrative review	6
Magic in a bottle? A Focused review of factor concentrates for the intraoperative treatment of acquired coagulopathy – Fibrinogen concentrate, prothrombin complex concentrate, and recombinant activate	6
Procedural sedation in older adults: A narrative review of pharmacological challenges, cognitive risks, and patient-centred approaches	5
Practical and societal implications of the potential anesthesia-induced neurotoxicity: The safetots perspective	5
Initiation and maintenance of neuraxial labour analgesia: A narrative review	5
Role of risk prediction scores in preoperative assessment of cardiac surgical patients	5
Erratum regarding previously published articles	5
Editorial Board	4
Failure to rescue: A quality indicator for postoperative care	4
Day-surgery adult patients with obesity and obstructive sleep apnea: Current controversies and concerns	4
Anesthetic care influences long-term outcomes: What is the evidence?	4
Patient Blood Management programs for post-partum hemorrhage	4
Postdural puncture headache: Revisited	4
"Point-of-care gastric ultrasound for assessing fasting status prior to procedural sedation: A narrative"	3
Anesthetic considerations for perioperative ECMO in lung transplantation	3
Erratum regarding previously published articles	3
Epidemiology, trends, and disparities in maternal mortality: A framework for obstetric anesthesiologists	3
Advances in foetal anaesthesia	3
Climate science for anaesthetists: PK/PD of volatile anaesthetics in the atmosphere	3

Updates in lung isolation techniques	3
Morbid obesity: Optimizing neuraxial analgesia and cesarean delivery outcomes	3
General anesthetic techniques for enhanced recovery after surgery: Current controversies	3
PoCUS in the pregnant patient	3
Preoperative investigations and imaging for cardiac surgical patients	3
Thoracic anesthesia, ventilation, and oxygen delivery: ‘A review of the recent advancements’	3
Spinal technique – Still going strong after 125 years!	3
Non-pharmacological sedation techniques: The role of hypnosis, virtual reality, and other strategies	2
Operational and strategic decision making in the perioperative setting: Meeting budgetary challenges and quality of care goals	2
Editorial Board	2
Point-of-care coagulation testing for postpartum haemorrhage	2
Local anesthetics, regional anesthesia and cancer biology	2
Return to intended oncologic treatment: Definitions, perioperative prognostic factors, and interventions	2
New frontiers in obstetric anesthesiology: Advocacy through innovation	2
Risk assessment tools to predict postpartum hemorrhage	2
Benchmarking outcomes for day surgery	2
Neuraxial labor analgesia: is there a place for neuraxial adjuvants beyond opioids	2
Preface: Controversies in perioperative care medicine	2
The role of tranexamic acid in the management of postpartum haemorrhage	2
Editorial Board	2
Perioperative leadership in the non-operating room and ambulatory setting	2