Top Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine Articles for 2020
RAPM editors have selected their top 10 most impactful articles from 2020 based on a variety of factors including Altmetric Scores (shown as graphics) as well as representation across the field from acute and chronic pain and regional anesthesia.
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“Music versus midazolam during preoperative nerve block placements: a prospective randomized controlled study,” by Veena Graff, Lu Cai, Ignacio Badiola, and Nabil M. Elkassabany. Online first: June 26, 2019; doi: 10.1136/rapm-2018-100251
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“Analgesic efficacy of adding the IPACK block to a multimodal analgesia protocol for primary total knee arthroplasty,” by Jason Ochroch, Victor Qi, Ignacio Badiola, Taras Grosh, Lui Cai, Veena Graff, Charles Nelson, Craig Israelite, and Nabil M Elkassabany. Online first: August 31, 2020; doi: 10.1136/rapm-2020-101558
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“Chronic pain and psychedelics: a review and proposed mechanism of action,” by Joel P Castellanos, Chris Woolley, Kelly Amanda Bruno, Fadel Zeidan, Adam Halberstadt, and Timothy Furnish. Online first: May 4, 2020. doi: 10.1136/rapm-2020-101273
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“Consensus practice guidelines on interventions for lumbar facet joint pain from a multispecialty, international working group,” by Steven P Cohen, Arun Bhaskar, Anuj Bhatia, Asokumar Buvanendran, Tim Deer, Shuchita Garg, W Michael Hooten, Robert W Hurley, David J Kennedy, Brian C McLean, Jee Youn Moon, Samer Narouze, Sanjog Pangarkar, David Anthony Provenzano, Richard Rauck, B Todd Sitzman, Matthew Smuck, Jan van Zundert, Kevin Vorenkamp, Mark S Wallace, and Zirong Zhao. Online first: April 3, 2020. doi: 10.1136/rapm-2019-101243
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“Opioid use among veterans undergoing major joint surgery managed by a multidisciplinary transitional pain service,” by Michael J Buys, Kimberlee Bayless, Jennifer Romesser, Zachary Anderson, Shardool Patel, Chong Zhang, Angela P Presson, and Benjamin Brooke. Online first: August 26, 2020. doi: 10.1136/rapm-2020-101797
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“COVID-19: bringing out the best in anesthesiologists and looking toward the future,” by Colin JL McCartney and Edward R Mariano. Online first: May 31, 2020. doi: 10.1136/rapm-2020-101629
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“How Twitter conversations using hashtags #regionalanesthesia and #regionalanaesthesia have changed in the COVID-19 era,” by Eric S Schwenk, Kellie M Jaremko, Rajnish K Gupta, Nabil M Elkassabany, Amit Pawa, Alex Kou, and Edward R Mariano. Online first: July 2, 2020. doi: 10.1136/rapm-2020-101747
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“PROSPECT guideline for hallux valgus repair surgery: a systematic review and procedure-specific postoperative pain management recommendations,” by Katarzyna Korwin-Kochanowska, Arnaud Potié, Kariem El-Boghdadly, Narinder Rawal, Girish Joshi, Eric Albrecht, the PROSPECT/ESRA Working Group Collaboration, G P Joshi, E Pogatzki-Zahn, M Van de Velde, S Schug, H Kehlet, F Bonnet, N Rawal, A Delbos, P Lavand’homme, H Beloeil, J Raeder, A Sauter, E Albrecht, P Lirk, S Freys, and D Lobo. Online first: June 28, 2020. doi: 10.1136/rapm-2020-101479
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“Statistically significant but clinically unimportant: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the analgesic benefits of erector spinae plane block following breast cancer surgery,” by Nasir Hussain, Richard Brull, Jordan Noble, Tristan Weaver, Michael Essandoh, Colin JL McCartney, and Faraj W Abdallah. Online first: November 9, 2020. doi: 10.1136/rapm-2020-101917
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“Dose–response relationship between local anesthetic volume and hemidiaphragmatic paresis following ultrasound-guided supraclavicular brachial plexus blockade,” by Tiffany R Tedore, Hannah X Lin, Kane O Pryor, Virginia E Tangel, Daniel J Pak, Michael Akerman, David S Wellman, Hannah Oden-Brunson. Online first: October 1, 2020. doi: 10.1136/rapm-2020-101728
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