Clinical Anesthesiology
A section of Clinics and Practice (ISSN 2039-7283).
Section Information
The Clinical Anesthesiology section of Clinics and Practice publishes clinically focused scholarship spanning anesthesiology, perioperative medicine, and acute and chronic pain care. We welcome original research, systematic reviews, clinical trials, quality-improvement studies, and practice-oriented reviews that advance patient safety, comfort, and outcomes in the operating room, procedural suites, and critical-care environments. Topics include anesthetic techniques and pharmacology, perioperative physiology and monitoring, airway and ventilation management, regional anesthesia and ultrasound guidance, enhanced recovery pathways, and the prevention and management of perioperative complications. The section also prioritizes acute and chronic pain management, including transitional pain, neuropathic pain, cancer-related pain, multidisciplinary care models, interventional pain procedures, rehabilitation, and opioid-sparing strategies. We encourage submissions addressing patient-reported outcomes, equity, and implementation of evidence-based protocols across diverse clinical settings.
Subject Areas
- General anesthesia
- Regional anesthesia
- Ultrasound-guided regional techniques and nerve blocks
- Airway management and difficult airway
- Ventilation strategies and perioperative respiratory care
- Perioperative medicine, risk stratification, and optimization
- Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) pathways
- Hemodynamic monitoring, fluid therapy, and vasoactive management
- Perioperative point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS)
- Non-operating room anesthesia (NORA) and procedural sedation
- Obstetric anesthesia
- Pediatric anesthesia
- Cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia
- Neuroanesthesia
- Trauma, emergency, and acute care anesthesia
- Perioperative critical care and postoperative ICU management
- Acute pain services and postoperative analgesia
- Multimodal analgesia; opioid-sparing and opioid-free strategies
- Transitional pain and prevention of persistent postsurgical pain
- Chronic pain management and multidisciplinary pain care
- Neuropathic pain
- Musculoskeletal and spine-related pain
- Headache and facial pain
- Cancer-related pain and palliative pain management
- Interventional pain procedures (e.g., injections, ablation, neuromodulation)
- Pain in special populations (older adults, pregnancy, pediatrics)
- Opioid stewardship, substance use disorder, and perioperative addiction considerations
- Pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, and pharmacogenomics of anesthetic/analgesic agents
- Patient safety, quality improvement, human factors, and outcomes research
- Perioperative complications (e.g., PONV, delirium, awareness, hypotension, AKI)
- Perioperative coagulation, anticoagulation, and blood management/transfusion
