All-Time Paradigm Shift of Anesthesia Management and Pain Medicine

Dear Colleagues,

In the last several decades, many significant advances in clinical technology and practice have led to a more efficient and safer peri-anesthesia patient care. Notable cutting-edge invention examples include pulse oximetry, capnography, supraglottic airway devices, videolaryngscopes, electroencephalographic monitoring for depth of anesthesia, hemodynamic monitoring, coagulation status monitoring, bedside point-of-care ultrasonography, advanced monitoring of neuromuscular blockade, nerve block for pain control, etc. New and improved drugs include sevoflurane, desflurane, remifentanil, dexmedetomidine, rocuronium, sugammadex, etc.

The aim of this Special Issue is to provide an updated panorama of current anesthesia management, focusing on new and emerging topics, and on new ideas and concepts to be developed and implemented to promote the safety and health of both patients and anesthesia workers. This Special Issue of Healthcare seeks commentaries, original research articles, short reports, and reviews, including randomized-controlled trials, technical reports, laboratory investigations, concept papers, as well as focused reviews (with or without meta-analyses) that will stimulate continuing efforts to develop better choices for optimal anesthesia care.

Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Evolving techniques and tools for airway management;
• Potential role of intravenous local anesthetics in oncology surgical outcomes;
• Optimal analgesic protocols for motor-sparing neural intervention;
• Technologies or technical protocols to preferentially target sensory components of the nerves in either acute- or chronic-pain scenarios;
• Modalities (techniques, technologies, or drug regimens) to prolong the effect of local anesthetics;
• Continuous real-time monitoring of hemodynamics, oxygenation, ventilation, neurological status, coagulation, and degree of neuromuscular blockade;
• Point-of-care ultrasound imaging for peri-operative management.

Prof. Dr. Luk Hsiang-Ning
Guest Editor

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