Trends of Regional Anesthesia Studies in Emergency Medicine: An Observational Study of Published Articles.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Regional anesthesia (RA) has become a prominent component of multimodal pain management in emergency medicine (EM), and its use has increased rapidly in recent decades. Nevertheless, there is a paucity of data on how RA practice has evolved in the specialty. In this study we sought to investigate how RA has been implemented in EM by analyzing trends of published articles and to describe the characteristics of the published research.

Methods

We retrieved RA-related publications from the SciVerse Scopus database from inception to January 13, 2022, focusing on studies associated with the use of RA in EM. The primary outcome was an analysis of trend based on the number of annual publications. Other outcomes included reports of technique diversity by year, trends in

SUBMITTER: Tsai TY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9683772 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature