1. Increased Risk of Intraoperative Awareness in Patients with a History of Awareness.

2. Predictors of Survival from Perioperative Cardiopulmonary Arrests: A Retrospective Analysis of 2,524 Events from the Get With The Guidelines-Resuscitation Registry.

3. Perioperative Metoprolol and Risk of Stroke after Noncardiac Surgery.

4. Incidence, Predictors, and Outcome of Difficult Mask Ventilation Combined with Difficult Laryngoscopy: A Report from the Multicenter Perioperative Outcomes Group.

5. Pain in 1,000 Women Treated for Breast Cancer: A Prospective Study of Pain Sensitivity and Postoperative Pain.

6. Effect of Catechol-o-methyltransferase-gene (COMT) Variants on Experimental and Acute Postoperative Pain in 1,000 Women undergoing Surgery for Breast Cancer.

7. Lidocaine Patch (5%) in Treatment of Persistent Inguinal Postherniorrhaphy Pain: A Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled, Crossover Trial.

8. Pregabalin Rectifies Aberrant Brain Chemistry, Connectivity, and Functional Response in Chronic Pain Patients.

9. Therapeutic Benefit of the Anesthesiologist–Patient Relationship.

10. Perioperative Organ Injury.

Volume 111 Issue 6 December 2013

1. Population pharmacokinetics of tranexamic acid in adults undergoing cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass.

2. Open-label, phase II study of routine high-flow nasal oxygen therapy in cardiac surgical patients.

3. Efficacy of butylscopolamine for the treatment of catheter-related bladder discomfort: a prospective, randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind study.

4. Neuro-ventilatory efficiency during weaning from mechanical ventilation using neurally adjusted ventilatory assist.

5. Sevoflurane therapy for life-threatening asthma in children.

December 2013: Volume 68, Issue 12, Pages 1207–1287, e13–e13

1. Pain policy and abuse of prescription opioids in the USA: a cautionary tale for Europe.

2. Lost in translation? Learning from the opioid epidemic in the USA.

3. Accuracy of the Lifebox pulse oximeter during hypoxia in healthy volunteers.

4. A randomised prospective trial of intra-operative oesophageal Doppler-guided fluid administration in major gynaecological surgery.

5. Prevalence and implications of a difference in systolic blood pressure between one arm and the other in vascular surgical patients. .

Current Issue: December 2013 - Volume 117 - Issue 6

1. Anesthetic Induction with Etomidate, Rather than Propofol, Is Associated with Increased 30-Day Mortality and Cardiovascular Morbidity After Noncardiac Surgery.

2. The Effect of Lipid Emulsion on Intracellular Bupivacaine as a Mechanism of Lipid Resuscitation: An Electrophysiological Study Using Voltage-Gated Proton Channels.

3. Intrathecal Ultra-Low Dose Naloxone Enhances the Antihyperalgesic Effects of Morphine and Attenuates Tumor Necrosis Factor-α and Tumor Necrosis Factor-α Receptor 1 Expression in the Dorsal Horn of Rats with Partial Sciatic Nerve Transection.

4. Pulse Wave Transit Time Measurements of Cardiac Output in Patients Undergoing Partial Hepatectomy: A Comparison of the esCCO System with Thermodilution.

5. Thyromental Height: A New Clinical Test for Prediction of Difficult Laryngoscopy.

6. The Effectiveness of Pudendal Nerve Block Versus Caudal Block Anesthesia for Hypospadias in Children.

7. The Effects of Exposure to General Anesthesia in Infancy on Academic Performance at Age 12.

8. A Patient Who Received 191 Spinal Anesthetics Over 5 Years Without Evidence of Neurologic Complications by Examination or Magnetic Resonance Imaging.

December 2013 - Volume 30 - Issue 12, pp: i-ii,721-782

1. Hepatopulmonary syndrome: the anaesthetic considerations.

2. Preoperative evaluation and preparation by anaesthesiologists only, please!

3. A multidisciplinary approach to improve preoperative understanding and reduce anxiety: A randomised study.

4. Lorazepam does not improve the quality of recovery in day-case surgery patients: A randomised placebo-controlled clinical trial.

December 2013: Volume 23, Issue 12, Pages 1109–1230

1. Skin temperature over the carotid artery provides an accurate noninvasive estimation of core temperature in infants and young children during general anesthesia.

2. Postoperative emergence delirium in pediatric patients undergoing cataract surgery – a comparison of desflurane and sevoflurane.

3. Evaluation of closed-loop anesthesia delivery for propofol anesthesia in pediatric cardiac surgery.

4. Comparison of heart rate variability response in children undergoing elective endotracheal intubation with and without neuromuscular blockade: a randomized controlled trial.

5. Laryngeal view and temperature measurements while using the perilaryngeal airway (Cobra-PLUS™) in children.

6. A retrospective study of multimodal analgesic treatment after laparoscopic appendectomy in children.

7. Caudal dexmedetomidine decreases the required concentration of levobupivacaine for caudal block in pediatric patients: a randomized trial.