Clinical Applications and Advances in Anesthesia and Pain Management
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Anesthesiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 September 2026 | Viewed by 117
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Modern anesthesia and pain management extend well beyond ensuring unconsciousness and intraoperative stability. Contemporary practice aims to optimize organ protection, accelerate functional recovery, reduce perioperative morbidity and deliver safe, effective analgesia across the surgical pathway and in non-operative settings. At the same time, clinicians face persistent challenges: heterogeneous patient risk profiles, complex comorbidities, variable responses to anesthetic and analgesic strategies, opioid stewardship and the need for reliable, outcome-relevant monitoring and decision support.
This Special Issue, “Clinical Applications and Advances in Anesthesia and Pain Management”, invites original clinical research and systematic or narrative reviews that advance the evidence base for perioperative anesthetic care and acute/chronic pain management. We particularly welcome works that link interventions, monitoring and care pathways to meaningful outcomes such as complications, recovery trajectories, patient-reported outcomes and long-term function.
Areas of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Perioperative risk stratification, hemodynamic/ventilatory management and outcome-driven monitoring
- Regional anesthesia and ultrasound-guided techniques; local anesthetic safety and optimization
- Multimodal, opioid-sparing analgesia; enhanced recovery pathways (ERAS); perioperative medicine models and prehabilitation
- Prevention and management of common perioperative complications (e.g., PONV, delirium, hypotension, respiratory events)
- Acute pain services, chronic postsurgical pain and transitions from acute to chronic pain
- Novel pharmacological strategies, devices, digital/AI-supported decision tools and implementation science in real-world practice
We look forward to contributions that are clinically actionable and methodologically robust, with clear relevance to patient care.
Prof. Dr. Tobias Kammerer
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- anesthesia
- pain management
- perioperative care
- multimodal analgesia
- ERAS
- opioid-sparing
- regional anesthesia
- outcome-driven monitoring
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