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Post-operative pain control
Guest Edited by Aboud AlJa'bari, Lalit Gupta, Mihai Popescu and Giustino Varrassi
Anesthesia and cognitive impairment
Guest Edited by Sarah Saxena and Gaetano Scaramuzzo
Perioperative hemodynamic monitoring and management
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COVID‐19-related acute respiratory distress syndrome
Guest Edited by Daniele Guerino Biasucci, Yalim Dikmen, and Longxiang Su
Obesity and anesthesia management
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Editors' picks
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95% effective volume of ropivacaine for ultrasound‑guided supra‑inguinal fascia iliaca compartment block
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A multi-disciplinary program for opioid sparse arthroplasty results in reduced long-term opioid consumption: a four year prospective study
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The construction of patient quality management model in oral post anesthesia care unit in China: a grounded theory approach
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Effect of butorphanol on visceral pain in patients undergoing gastrointestinal endoscopy: a randomized controlled trial
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Comparison of analgesic effect of oxycodone and morphine on patients with moderate and advanced cancer pain: a meta-analysis
The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Anesthesiology 2018 18:173
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Endotracheal tube cuff pressure in three hospitals, and the volume required to produce an appropriate cuff pressure
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Is tracheostomy a better choice than translaryngeal intubation for critically ill patients requiring mechanical ventilation for more than 14 days? A comparison of short-term outcomes
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Head CT is of limited diagnostic value in critically ill patients who remain unresponsive after discontinuation of sedation
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Covariates of intravenous paracetamol pharmacokinetics in adults
Aims and scope
BMC Anesthesiology is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of anesthesiology, critical care, perioperative care and pain management, including clinical and experimental research into anesthetic mechanisms, administration and efficacy, technology and monitoring, and associated economic issues.
The journal welcomes manuscripts in the following broad areas of research:
- Establishment and maintenance of airways and respiratory control, as well as associated complications.
- Critical care and ICU medicine.
- Management of pain in all settings.
- Pharmacology and pharmacokinetics of anesthetic and analgesic compounds, as well as other more laboratory focused and experimental studies.
- Anesthesia in the pre-, intra- and post-operative settings. Studies concerning the outcome of patients when this is related to operative anesthesia will also be considered.
- Anesthesia and perioperative care for patients requiring organ transplantation, including liver, kidney, pancreas, intestine, heart, lung, multiorgan transplantation as well as transplantations that not fully established yet such as face, uterus and extremity transplantation.
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Citation Impact
2.376 - 2-year Impact Factor (2021)
2.583 - 5-year Impact Factor (2021)
1.200 - SNIP (Source-Normalized Impact per Paper)
0.620 - SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)Speed
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Reviewer interacts with: Editor
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