Clinical Updates on Opioids Research and Pain Management

Dear Colleagues,

The Journal of Clinical Medicine (JCM) is supporting the publication of a Special Issue on “Clinical Updates on Opioids Research and Pain Management”, for which I will be serving as the Guest Editor.

Opioids are widely utilized agents for pain control, both intraoperatively and postoperatively, to control the nociceptive pathway of pain; however, due to the abundance of adverse effects associated with their use, such as nausea, vomiting, respiratory depression, ileus, delayed gastric emptying, and pruritus, the use of opioid-sparing and opioid-free techniques have gained growing interest as part of a multimodal analgesic approach. In this context, and following the quest for non-opioid-based regimens in the era of an ever-increasing opioid epidemic, regional anesthesia and analgesia techniques are an interesting supplementary alternative aiming to minimize opioid use.

This Special Issue aims to provide up-to-date data by presenting research on opioids and pain management and to be a comprehensive aggregation of work performed by experts in the field, thus providing a valuable resource of knowledge for anesthesiologists worldwide. By providing the opportunity to publish a significant number of articles on this important issue in modern anesthesia practice, we hope that we will be able to enhance readers’ ability to appreciate recent advances in this field and augment their potential gain of knowledge. Therefore, this Special Issue encourages submissions on the current state of the art but also on ongoing controversies related to the practice of opioid research as well as opioid-sparing and opioid-free techniques.

I therefore kindly invite healthcare professionals and researchers involved in the care of patients to address relevant topics and submit original research articles, reviews, meta-analyses, observational studies, case reports, or case series to the JCM be published in this Special Issue after a thorough peer review by experts in the field.

I am very much looking forward to receiving your submissions.

Prof. Dr. Kassiani Theodoraki
Guest Editor

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