Chronic Pain: The Role of Regional Anesthesia

Dear Colleagues,

Chronic pain poses a major challenge for physicians. It leads to a lower quality of life, with patients requiring prolonged hospitalization and medical attention; moreover, the available medical treatment may not effectively treat the pain.

However, in recent years, regional anesthesia has made considerable progress thanks to factors such as improved technology, better anatomical knowledge, and high research interest leading to multiple scientific publications on the topic.

The role of regional anesthesia in chronic pain is fascinating, owing to its ability to mitigate or resolve such pain with focused therapy in addition to the usual multimodal strategy.

However, research is still lacking, especially on newly described techniques such as interfascial plane blocks, when considering the role of regional anesthesia in chronic pain.

The aim of this Special Issue is to highlight recent advances in the context of treatment and the prediction of prognoses in regional anesthesia for the treatment of chronic pain in gastrointestinal disorders.

We welcome all submissions, and are especially interested in receiving original randomized or observational trials and reviews (with or without meta-analysis).

Dr. Alessandro De Cassai
Dr. Federico Geraldini
Guest Editors

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