AnaesthesiaPub Date : 2025-09-14DOI: 10.1111/anae.16784
Po-Ni Hsiao,Hsing-Hao Huang,Ming-Hui Hung
{"title":"Context is king: reinterpreting the efficacy of intranasal dexmedetomidine for emergence agitation.","authors":"Po-Ni Hsiao,Hsing-Hao Huang,Ming-Hui Hung","doi":"10.1111/anae.16784","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anae.16784","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7742,"journal":{"name":"Anaesthesia","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145059080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AnaesthesiaPub Date : 2025-09-09DOI: 10.1111/anae.16686
{"title":"Global anaesthesia practice using inguinal hernia surgery as a tracer condition: a secondary analysis of an international prospective cohort study.","authors":" ","doi":"10.1111/anae.16686","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anae.16686","url":null,"abstract":"INTRODUCTIONRestoration of surgical capacity is essential to post-COVID-19 recovery. This study explored the use and safety of anaesthesia options for inguinal hernia surgery, a common tracer condition, to describe current global practice and highlight opportunities to build the capacity of health systems.METHODSThis is a secondary analysis of an international prospective cohort study of consecutive patients who underwent elective inguinal hernia surgery. We used a consensus process to define generalisable outcomes to measure patient selection, utilisation of hospital capacity and peri-operative safety in patients who received locoregional, spinal or general anaesthesia for their surgery.RESULTSIn total, 16,554 patients from 83 countries were included. Locoregional anaesthesia was performed in 1536 (9.2%) of patients, compared with 9165 (55.4%) who had general and 55,853 (35.4%) who had spinal anaesthesia. Patient selection outcomes were comparable across anaesthesia groups. As a measure of hospital capacity, adjusted day-case rates were higher for locoregional anaesthesia (OR 6.62, 95%CI 5.13-8.54, p < 0.001) but not for spinal anaesthesia (OR 0.97, 95%CI 0.84-1.12, p = 0.68) compared with general anaesthesia. Complications were lower in patients who underwent locoregional anaesthesia (OR = 0.67, 95%CI 0.52-0.87, p = 0.001) but not for spinal anaesthesia (OR = 0.90, 95%CI 0.77-1.05, p = 0.167) compared with general anaesthesia after risk adjustment.DISCUSSIONThis study has filled knowledge gaps of anaesthesia practice in common surgeries across the world. Locoregional and spinal anaesthesia could be adopted as safe options to increase surgical volume when there is limited access to general anaesthesia.","PeriodicalId":7742,"journal":{"name":"Anaesthesia","volume":"56 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145017956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AnaesthesiaPub Date : 2025-09-04DOI: 10.1111/anae.16759
Alessandro Rovetta,Pavlos Msaouel,Mohammad Ali Mansournia
{"title":"Interpreting statistical evidence with S values.","authors":"Alessandro Rovetta,Pavlos Msaouel,Mohammad Ali Mansournia","doi":"10.1111/anae.16759","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anae.16759","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7742,"journal":{"name":"Anaesthesia","volume":"84 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144962742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AnaesthesiaPub Date : 2025-09-04DOI: 10.1111/anae.16749
Britta S von Ungern-Sternberg,James Peyton,Clyde Matava
{"title":"The fewer the better or the more the merrier? The challenges of large research collaborations.","authors":"Britta S von Ungern-Sternberg,James Peyton,Clyde Matava","doi":"10.1111/anae.16749","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anae.16749","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7742,"journal":{"name":"Anaesthesia","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144995957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AnaesthesiaPub Date : 2025-09-02DOI: 10.1111/anae.16765
Susie Hannon, Anna Dürr, Aoife Lavelle
{"title":"Balancing efficiency with safety: re‐evaluating definitions and protocols for tracheal extubation in the post‐anaesthesia care unit","authors":"Susie Hannon, Anna Dürr, Aoife Lavelle","doi":"10.1111/anae.16765","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anae.16765","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7742,"journal":{"name":"Anaesthesia","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144928261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AnaesthesiaPub Date : 2025-09-02DOI: 10.1111/anae.16767
Longsheng Zhang, Zitian Luo, Renzhe Lin
{"title":"Comparison of two peripheral regional analgesic techniques for primary elective total hip arthroplasty","authors":"Longsheng Zhang, Zitian Luo, Renzhe Lin","doi":"10.1111/anae.16767","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anae.16767","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7742,"journal":{"name":"Anaesthesia","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144928001","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AnaesthesiaPub Date : 2025-09-02DOI: 10.1111/anae.16769
Benjamin Dallyn, Jan Hansel, Tim M. Cook
{"title":"Bougie or stylet: what to use when the chips are down?","authors":"Benjamin Dallyn, Jan Hansel, Tim M. Cook","doi":"10.1111/anae.16769","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anae.16769","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7742,"journal":{"name":"Anaesthesia","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144928260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AnaesthesiaPub Date : 2025-09-02DOI: 10.1111/anae.16761
Ying Wang, Xiaocou Wang, Bo Zheng
{"title":"Postoperative delirium and quality of recovery in older patients undergoing gastrectomy under general anaesthesia with remimazolam vs. propofol","authors":"Ying Wang, Xiaocou Wang, Bo Zheng","doi":"10.1111/anae.16761","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anae.16761","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7742,"journal":{"name":"Anaesthesia","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144928601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AnaesthesiaPub Date : 2025-09-02DOI: 10.1111/anae.16770
Jasper M. Kampman, Nicolaas H. Sperna Weiland, Mark L. van Zuylen
{"title":"Nitrous oxide for labour analgesia: a comment","authors":"Jasper M. Kampman, Nicolaas H. Sperna Weiland, Mark L. van Zuylen","doi":"10.1111/anae.16770","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anae.16770","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7742,"journal":{"name":"Anaesthesia","volume":"302 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144928602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}