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Call for papers - Post-operative pain control

Guest Editors:
Aboud AlJa'bari: University of Jordan, Jordan
Lalit Gupta: Maulana Azad Medical College & Lok Nayak Hospital, India
Mihai Popescu: Fundeni Clinical Institute & Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Romania
Giustino Varrassi: Paolo Procacci Foundation, Italy

Submission Status: Open   |   Submission Deadline: 31 March 2024


BMC Anesthesiology has launched a special issue on “Post-operative pain control” focusing on new research in this field focusing on novel analgesics, multimodal anesthesia and regional anesthesia making the step to a personalized perioperative pain control. Post-operative pain control is a major factor of modern anesthesia care. Recent advances, such as multimodal analgesia, regional anesthesia techniques and opioid free anesthesia have significantly impacted the way we care for our patients in the perioperative period and has impacted patient comfort and satisfaction. Moreover, considering increasing age of patients addressed for surgery, as well as the high incidence of severe co-morbidities, providing safe anesthesia care in terms of perioperative management has become a crucial aspect of modern anesthesia practice.

Meet the Guest Editors

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Aboud AlJa'bari: University of Jordan, Jordan

Prof. Aboud AlJa’bari did his fellowship in France and Switzerland in Cardiothoracic anaesthesia as well as in Regional anaesthesia and Pain Medicine, and he is now a Consultant in Cardiothoracic, Regional Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine. Prof. AlJa’bari has published more than 30 articles in well-known anaesthesia journals, and he has also been an international speaker in anaesthesia conferences like ESRA. His research interests focus on anaesthesia for all varieties of surgeries.

Lalit Gupta: Maulana Azad Medical College & Lok Nayak Hospital, India

Dr. Lalit Gupta is working as Associate Professor in the Anaesthesiology and Intensive care department at Maulana Azad Medical College and Associated Hospitals, New Delhi, India. He has more than 17 years of experience in the field of Anaesthesia and Intensive care, and has authored the books "Synopsis of Anaesthesia" and "Drugs in Anaesthesia and Critical Care". He is also an Instructor and provider for Acute Critical Care Management course (ACCM). Dr. Gupta has special Interest in Intensive Care, Remote area-anaesthesia management, Difficult airway, Onco-anaesthesia, Pain medicine and palliative care.

Mihai Popescu: Fundeni Clinical Institute & Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Romania

Mihai Popescu is an Associate Professor of Anaesthesia and Critical Care at “Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Bucharest, Romania and also an international examiner for EDAIC. His main areas of interest are perioperative medicine, anaesthesia for major abdominal surgery, thoracic surgery and liver transplantation, acute liver failure, sepsis and extracorporeal organ support. He is currently involved in active research on topics such as regional anaesthesia for major liver resections, opioid-free anaesthesia and liver support therapies. 

Giustino Varrassi: Paolo Procacci Foundation, Italy

Prof. Varrassi is the President of the Paolo Procacci Foundation, an NGO based in Rome and involved in research and education on Pain Medicine. He started his academic career in the Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care of the University of Rome. He later became Chairman of the Anaesthesiology and Pain Medicine Department at the University of L'Aquila, Italy. Prof. Varrassi has started and directed all the Academic Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine programs at the University of L'Aquila.

About the collection

Post-operative pain control is a major factor of modern anesthesia care. Recent advances, such as multimodal analgesia, regional anesthesia techniques and opioid free anesthesia have significantly impacted the way we care for our patients in the perioperative period and has impacted patient comfort and satisfaction. Moreover, considering increasing age of patients addressed for surgery, as well as the high incidence of severe co-morbidities, providing safe anesthesia care in terms of perioperative management has become a crucial aspect of modern anesthesia practice.

Choosing one technique for pain control over another has become challenging and objective assessment of pain severity is still a debatable issue. In this context, perioperative pain medicine has become more complex than ever and, hence it has evolved into a new branch of perioperative medicine comprising of new insights on advanced monitoring, pharmacology and neurophysiology. 

BMC Anesthesiology has launched a special issue on “Post-operative pain control” focusing on new research in this field focusing on novel analgesics, multimodal anesthesia and regional anesthesia making the step to a personalized perioperative pain control.

We invite submissions from all aspects of this field including, but not limited to:

•    Novel analgesics: new approaches to pain management, such as the development of novel analgesics, including non-opioid medications, and new routes of administration, such as transdermal and intranasal.
•    Multimodal anaesthesia: The use of a combination of medications to provide pain relief after surgery, including local anaesthetics, opioids, and non-opioid analgesics, as well as non-pharmacological techniques such as nerve blocks, and cognitive behavioural therapy.
•    Regional anaesthesia: The use of nerve blocks, epidurals, and other regional anaesthesia techniques to provide targeted pain relief after surgery.
•    Personalized perioperative pain control: The use of patient-specific factors, such as age, comorbidities, and genetic variations, to individualize pain management plans.
•    Postoperative pain assessment: Advances in pain assessment techniques and tools, including the use of patient-reported outcomes and wearable devices.
•    Pharmacogenomics: The use of genetic information to optimize pain management by identifying medications that are most effective and safe for individual patients.
•    Economic impact: The economic impact of improved pain management, including reductions in healthcare costs, length of hospital stays, and readmissions.
•    Pain assessment: research on new methods of measuring pain and assessing the effectiveness of pain management strategies.

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  1. National guidelines for rational opioid prescribing for acute postoperative pain are needed to optimise postoperative pain control and function whilst minimising opioid-related harm.

    Authors: C. L. McCorquodale, R. Greening, R. Tulloch and P. Forget
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2023 23:294
    Content type: Research Published on:

  2. The application of artificial intelligence patient-controlled analgesia (AI-PCA) facilitates the remote monitoring of analgesia management, the implementation of mobile ward rounds, and the automatic recording...

    Authors: Di Wang, Yihui Guo, Qian Yin, Hanzhong Cao, Xiaohong Chen, Hua Qian, Muhuo Ji and Jianfeng Zhang
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2023 23:281
    Content type: Research Published on:

  3. Surgery to repair pectus excavatum (PE) is often associated with severe postoperative pain, which can impact the length of hospital stay (LOS). While thoracic epidural analgesia (TEA) has traditionally been us...

    Authors: Li-Jung Chen, Shih-Hong Chen, Yung-Lin Hsieh and Po-Chuan Yu
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2023 23:266
    Content type: Research Published on:

Submission Guidelines

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This Collection welcomes submission of Research Articles. Before submitting your manuscript, please ensure you have read our submission guidelines. Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. During the submission process you will be asked whether you are submitting to a Collection, please select ["Post-operative pain control"] from the dropdown menu.

Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all of the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.

The Guest Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer review process. The peer review of any submissions for which the Guest Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.