Aims and Scope

Anesthesiology Research and Practice is a peer-reviewed, open access journal dedicated to the sciences of anesthesia, intensive care and pain control. In more specific terms, research published in the journal will include, but not limited to the following fields:

  • Mechanisms of anesthesia and pharmacologic actions of anesthetics, including their side effects
  • Techniques used in anesthesia and critical care, including airway management
  • Regional anesthesia: techniques, mechanisms of action, complications
  • Problems related to specific types of surgery, including ambulatory surgery
  • Acute pain
  • Chronic pain, especially if it is the result of surgery or invasive procedures
  • Monitoring (including blood testing) in anesthesia and critical care
  • Blood coagulation, fluids and transfusion in anesthesia and critical care
  • Physician-patient interactions and ethical problems in anesthesia and critical care
  • Inflammatory response to invasive procedures
  • Shock (any cause) and cardiac arrest
  • Acute organ dysfunction and methods of organ function replacement
  • Drug therapy (including nutrition) in the ICU
  • Trauma care
  • Sedation and analgesia in the ICU
  • Outcome studies, including notably postoperative effects of anesthesia and analgesia but also effects of preoperative investigations and actions that can modify outcome after surgery or any other invasive stressful situation.
  • Risk reduction in surgical and ICU patients
  • Organizational aspects of anesthesia and efficiency of operating room capacity

Intensive care is an integral part of anesthesiology. Without the background knowledge of intensive care, adequate performances in anesthesia care are difficult to obtain. Anesthesiology Research and Practice will select information that is essential to maintain competence and that increases both performance of our clinical practice and patient safety. Evaluation of practice patterns and risk-quality studies are welcome by the Editors as it clearly appears that deficient organization and barriers to change are leading causes of inadequate care.