An excellent bibliographic study of the most cited anesthesia papers of all time, resulting in a collection of 600 papers across 15 subspecialty areas:

• Airway
• Cardiovascular & vascular
• General & physiology
• Head & neck
• Monitoring
• Obstetric
• Acute pain
• Chronic pain
• Pediatric anesthesia
• Preoperative management
• Postoperative care
• Pharmacology
• Regional & LA
• Pulmonary physiology

• Fluid management and transfusion

  It is ironic that as electronic access to medical literature becomes more pervasive, the ability for an individual to maintain a semblance of broad awareness of that body of knowledge becomes more difficult. (Tripathi, 2011)

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• Ravi S Tripathi, James M Blum, Thomas J Papadimos, and Andrew L Rosenberg.
• University of Michigan Medical School, Department of Anesthesiology, 1H247 UH, SPC 5048, 1500 East Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-5048, USA. ravi.tripathi@osumc.edu.
• BMC Anesthesiol. 2011 Jan 1;11:24.

BackgroundArticles cited counts are catalogued and help identify landmark papers. This study provides a citation classics of anesthesiology literature using the framework of subspecialties to provide a review of well-developed areas of research in anesthesiology.MethodsA comprehensive list of the most-cited articles in anesthesia was compiled using a bibliometric database and general search terms such as "anesthesia" as well as subspecialty-specific search terms. Queries were reviewed for relevance to anesthesiology practice, categorized by subspecialty, and ranked according to their citation counts.ResultsThe database resulted in 2519 articles published between 1945 and 2008. The specialty areas most represented were chronic pain medicine (11%), pharmacology (9%), and pain sciences (9%).ConclusionsThis citations classic allows for advances in anesthesiology and its subspecialties to be highlighted as well to provide useful manuscripts to guide patient care, direct future research, and serve as sources for future academic pursuit.

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