1. Ambulatory Continuous Peripheral Nerve Blocks and the Perioperative Surgical Home.

2. Value of Sequels: Is It Safe to Include Nitrous Oxide in Your Anesthetic?

3. An Expedited Care Pathway with Ambulatory Brachial Plexus Analgesia Is a Cost-effective Alternative to Standard Inpatient Care after Complex Arthroscopic Elbow Surgery: A Randomized, Single-blinded Study.

4. Nitrous Oxide and Serious Long-term Morbidity and Mortality in the Evaluation of Nitrous Oxide in the Gas Mixture for Anaesthesia (ENIGMA)-II Trial.

5.Psychiatric Disorders and Psychopharmacologic Treatment as Risk Factors in Elective Fast-track Total Hip and Knee Arthroplasty.

6.Prothrombin Complex Concentrate Is Effective in Treating the Anticoagulant Effects of Dabigatran in a Porcine Polytrauma Model.

7. Methylprednisolone Does Not Reduce Persistent Pain after Cardiac Surgery.

Volume 115 Issue 6 December 2015

1. Art of airway management: the concept of ‘Ma’ (Japanese: 間, when ‘less is more’)

2.Difficult Airway Society 2015 guidelines for the management of unanticipated difficult intubation in adults: not just another algorithm.

3.Difficult Airway Society 2015 guidelines for management of unanticipated difficult intubation in adults.

4.Risk assessment tools validated for patients undergoing emergency laparotomy: a systematic review.

5.Dexamethasone alone vs in combination with transcutaneous electrical acupoint stimulation or tropisetron for prevention of postoperative nausea and vomiting in gynaecological patients undergoing laparoscopic surgery.

6. Pregabalin reduces postoperative opioid consumption and pain for 1 week after hospital discharge, but does not affect function at 6 weeks or 3 months after total hip arthroplasty.

7. Optimal volume of local anaesthetic for adductor canal block: using the continual reassessment method to estimate ED95.

December 2015, Volume 70, Issue 12, Pages 1335–1466

1. Haematological malignancy and critical care - new bedfellows?

2. The discriminatory value of cardiorespiratory interactions in distinguishing awake from anaesthetised states: a randomised observational study.

3. An observational study of the ‘isolated forearm technique’ in unparalysed, spontaneously breathing patients.

4.A randomised controlled trial of bilateral dual transversus abdominis plane blockade for laparoscopic appendicectomy.

5. Design and validation of the Regional Anaesthesia Procedural Skills Assessment Tool.

6. Neurotoxicity of perineural vs intraneural–extrafascicular injection of liposomal bupivacaine in the porcine model of sciatic nerve block.

7.Peri-operative management of the surgical patient with diabetes 2015.

December 2015 - Volume 121 - Issue 6, pp: 1407-1688

1. Preoperative Acute Normovolemic Hemodilution for Minimizing Allogeneic Blood Transfusion: A Meta-Analysis.

2.The Efficacy and Safety of the Novel Peripheral Analgesic Isovaline as an Adjuvant to Propofol for General Anesthesia and Conscious Sedation: A Proof-of-Principle Study in Mice.

3.A Randomized Trial of a Supplemental Alarm for Critically Low Systolic Blood Pressure.

4. Interaction Effects of Acute Kidney Injury, Acute Respiratory Failure, and Sepsis on 30-Day Postoperative Mortality in Patients Undergoing High-Risk Intraabdominal General Surgical Procedures.

5. The Effects of Single-Dose Etomidate Versus Propofol on Cortisol Levels in Pediatric Patients Undergoing Urologic Surgery: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

6. The Effect of Systemic Magnesium on Postsurgical Pain in Children Undergoing Tonsillectomies: A Double-Blinded, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial.

7. The Analgesic Efficacy of Ultrasound-Guided Transversus Abdominis Plane Block in Adult Patients: A Meta-Analysis.

8.The Analgesic Efficacy of Dexmedetomidine as an Adjunct to Local Anesthetics in Supraclavicular Brachial Plexus Block: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

December 2015 - Volume 32 - Issue 12, pp: 825-899

1. “A Time to Act” – Anaesthesiologists in resuscitation help save 200,000 lives per year worldwide: School children, lay resuscitation, telephone-CPR, IOM and more.

2. How to minimise ventilator-induced lung injury in transplanted lungs: The role of protective ventilation and other strategies.

3.Use of metamizole in children and the risk of agranulocytosis: Is the benefit worth the risk?

4.Metamizole for postoperative pain therapy in 1177 children: A prospective, multicentre, observational, postauthorisation safety study.

5. Effects of melatonin premedication to prevent emergence agitation after general anaesthesia in children: A systematic review and meta-analysis with trial sequential analysis.

6. Systemic and alveolar inflammatory response in the dependent and nondependent lung in patients undergoing lung resection surgery: A prospective observational study.

7. Preoxygenation by spontaneous breathing or noninvasive positive pressure ventilation with and without positive end-expiratory pressure: A randomised controlled trial.

Volume 62, Issue 12, December 2015

1. The impact of changes in drug availability for hemodynamic management in pheochromocytoma: prêt-à-porter or tailor-made?

2. Reporting critical incidents in a tertiary hospital: a historical cohort study of 110,310 procedures.

3. Efficacy of palonosetron for preventing postoperative nausea and vomiting: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

4. One-year outcome of the sevoflurane in acute myocardial infarction randomized trial.

5. A randomized trial comparing axillary block versus targeted intracluster injection supraclavicular block for upper limb surgery.

6. Histological confirmation of needle tip position during ultrasound-guided interscalene block: a randomized comparison between the intraplexus and the periplexus approach.

December 2015, Volume 25, Issue 12, Pages 1181–1305

1.. Ability of hemostatic assessment to detect bleeding disorders and to predict abnormal surgical blood loss in children: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

2.Evaluation of glottic view through Air-Q Intubating Laryngeal Airway in the supine and lateral position and assessing it as a conduit for blind endotracheal intubation in children in the supine position.

3.A smartphone version of the Faces Pain Scale-Revised and the Color Analog Scale for postoperative pain assessment in children.

4. Heart rate response to a caudal block in children anesthetized with sevoflurane after ultrasound confirmation of placement.

5. Pain outcomes in children who received intrathecal vs intravenous opioids for pain control following major urologic surgery: a retrospective review.

6.Changes in QTc associated with a rapid bolus dose of dexmedetomidine in patients receiving TIVA: a retrospective study.