Table 2 Specific anesthesiology subspecialties areas and search terms used.
From: A bibliometric search of citation classics in anesthesiology
Subject Area | Focus | Search Terms |
|---|---|---|
Airway management | Intubation, difficult airway | "difficult-airway" intubation |
Cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesiology | Cardiothoracic anesthesiology and intraoperative cardiac pathology | "bypass" "cardiac" "cardio*" "heart" "transfusion" "thoracic" "single lung" "one lung" "lung isolation" "vascular" "aneurysm" |
General anesthesiology and physiology | Articles that pertained to field as a whole | "sedation" "monitored-anesthesia-care" "MAC" "line-placement" "cannula*" |
Head and neck surgery (including neurophysiology) | Neuroanesthesia and anesthesiology for head and neck surgery | "neurosurgery" "crani*" "cerebral-blood-flow" "intracranial-pressure" "carotid endart*" |
Monitors | Hemodynamic monitors and monitors of depth of anesthesiology (excluding monitors of surgical techniques) | "monitor" "safety" "record" "inform*" "echo*" |
Obstetric anesthesiology | Including environmental and occupational studies | "obstetric anes*" "labor analgesia" |
Pain (basic science and clinical management) | Basic sciences included pharmacology and acute physiology, while chronic included clinical management of patients with chronic pain | "pain" "opioid" "opiate" |
Pediatric anesthesiology | Including both anesthesiology and pain | "pediatric" "paediatric" |
Preoperative medicine | Precardiovascular screening for non-cardiac surgery, preoperative optimization, and other disease-risk stratification | "preop*" "periop*" "intraop*" |
Postoperative care | Postoperative pain management, nausea and vomiting, and other physiologic complications of anesthesiology (excluding pulmonary) | "postop*" "PACU" "postanesthesia" "postanaesthesia" |
Pharmacology | Mainly volatile anesthetics, intravenous anesthetics, and neuromuscular blocking drugs (local anesthetics and opiods were addressed elsewhere) | "local anes" "local anaes" "nondepolariz*" "succinylcholine" "malignant hyper*" "intravenous anes" "intravenous anaes" "inhalation anes*" "volatile anes*" "neuromuscular-block*" "paralytic" |
Regional and neuraxial anesthesiology | Safety and use of regional and neuraxial anesthesiology including pharmacology and physiology | "regional anes*" "regional anaes*" "neuraxial anes*" "neuraxial anaes*" "epidural" "spinal" "subarachnoid" "intrathecal" "ambulatory surgery" |
Pulmonary | Intraoperative ventilatory management, pulmonary physiology, and postoperative pathology | "ventilator" "hypoxia" |
Fluid management | Intraoperative fluid optimization and transfusion medicine | "transfusion" "fluid" "blood" |