Anesthesia & Pain Updates

Days alive and out-of-hospital within 90 days after colectomy in an upper middle-income country: a retrospective cohort study https://www.bjanaesthesia.org/article/S0007-0912(26)00533-7/fulltext?rss=yes

Closed-loop systems for automated hypnotic drug delivery during general anaesthesia. Comment on Br J Anaesth 2026; 136: 1811-21 https://www.bjanaesthesia.org/article/S0007-0912(26)00532-5/fulltext?rss=yes

Prompt injection compromises large language model-based peer review: evidence from randomised controlled trial abstracts from anaesthesia journals https://www.bjanaesthesia.org/article/S0007-0912(26)00529-5/fulltext?rss=yes

Barriers and facilitators for preanaesthesia teleconsultations in a French rural area: a single-centre survey https://www.bjanaesthesia.org/article/S0007-0912(26)00475-7/fulltext?rss=yes

The map and the territory: a critical appraisal of pulse contour cardiac output monitoring https://www.bjanaesthesia.org/article/S0007-0912(26)00541-6/fulltext?rss=yes

Intraoperative hypotension and adverse postoperative outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials https://www.bjanaesthesia.org/article/S0007-0912(26)00504-0/fulltext?rss=yes

Agreement of minimally invasive pulse wave analysis with pulmonary artery and transpulmonary thermodilution cardiac output measurements in perioperative and intensive care medicine: interpreting reference-method effects. Comment on Br J Anaesth 2026; 137: 39–54 https://www.bjanaesthesia.org/article/S0007-0912(26)00527-1/fulltext?rss=yes

Patient blood management: the implementation gap does not lie in the lack of evidence, but misconceptions, structural deficits, lack of responsibility, behaviour and culture. Comment on Br J Anaesth 2026; 137: 74–88 https://www.bjanaesthesia.org/article/S0007-0912(26)00530-1/fulltext?rss=yes

Effect of individualised versus routine intraoperative blood pressure management on acute kidney injury in noncardiac surgery: kidney-focussed individualised intraoperative blood pressure management. Comment on Br J Anaesth Advance Access published on May 1, 2026, doi: 10.1016/j.bja.2026.03.028 https://www.bjanaesthesia.org/article/S0007-0912(26)00543-X/fulltext?rss=yes

Effect of two-session remote ischaemic preconditioning on myocardial injury after noncardiac surgery in patients undergoing abdominal surgery. Comment on Br J Anesth 2026; 137: 55–65 https://www.bjanaesthesia.org/article/S0007-0912(26)00525-8/fulltext?rss=yes

Chinese clinical practice guidelines for total intravenous anaesthesia. Comment on Br J Anaesth 2026; 136: 876–96 https://www.bjanaesthesia.org/article/S0007-0912(26)00531-3/fulltext?rss=yes

Withholding or continuing glucose-lowering drugs for elective surgery in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Comment on Br J Anaesth 2026; 137: 99–109 https://www.bjanaesthesia.org/article/S0007-0912(26)00538-6/fulltext?rss=yes

Difficult Airway Society 2025 guidelines for management of unanticipated difficult tracheal intubation in adults: rethinking tracheal tube size for emergency scalpel cricothyroidotomy. Comment on Br J Anaesth 2025; 136: 283–307 https://www.bjanaesthesia.org/article/S0007-0912(26)00505-2/fulltext?rss=yes

Perioperative management of patients taking sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors: Society for perioperative Assessment and Quality Improvement (SPAQI) multidisciplinary consensus statement. Comment on Br J Anaesth 2026; 136: 1776–99 https://www.bjanaesthesia.org/article/S0007-0912(26)00508-8/fulltext?rss=yes

Socioeconomic status and mortality after acute hip fracture surgery in Sweden: a registry-based nationwide epidemiologic study https://www.bjanaesthesia.org/article/S0007-0912(26)00503-9/fulltext?rss=yes

Self-reported frailty: good enough for perioperative practice? https://www.bjanaesthesia.org/article/S0007-0912(26)00513-1/fulltext?rss=yes

Assessing impact of supervision in aerobic exercise training on fitness and clinical outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis https://www.bjanaesthesia.org/article/S0007-0912(26)00478-2/fulltext?rss=yes

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