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Br J Anaesth
March 2025
Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany.
Background: Effective perioperative pain management is crucial to prevent patient suffering, delayed recovery, chronic postsurgical pain, and long-term opioid use. However, the heterogeneous use of outcomes in studies complicates evidence synthesis and might not accurately reflect the experiences of individual patients. We initiated a consensus process to establish a core outcome set (COS) of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) in postoperative pain, building upon the earlier consensus on a COS of domains.
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March 2025
Division of Clinical Psychology and Psychological Intervention, Institute of Psychology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany.
Chronic postsurgical pain (CPSP) is associated with reduced health-related quality of life and disability. In some patients, it can result in long-term opioid use even after minor surgery. Epidemiological studies have reported highly varying rates of CPSP, largely because researchers have used different definitions with self-defined cut-offs for pain scores.
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March 2025
Division of Blood Disorders, Rutgers Cancer Institute, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, USA. Electronic address:
Malignancies arising during pregnancy are an infrequent occurrence, leading to a paucity of data on the optimal management of cancers during pregnancy. Unlike most solid tumors, the primary, and often curative, management of hematologic malignancies relies heavily on multiagent cytotoxic chemotherapies over surgery and other localized therapies, making their management during pregnancy even more complex and hazardous to both mother and fetus. Close multidisciplinary care and coordination between obstetrician, maternal fetal medicine, and oncologists are essential given the dangers to both in the management, from diagnosis and throughout treatment, even through delivery and survivorship.
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March 2025
MEDRVA Healthcare, Richmond, Virginia, USA.
Introduction: Sacroiliac joint (SIJ) pain comprises up to 30% of cases of mechanical low back pain (LBP), the leading cause of disability worldwide. Despite sacral lateral branch cooled radiofrequency ablation (CRFA) showing efficacy in clinical trials, there is a lack of comparative-effectiveness long-term follow-up.
Methods: In this randomized, multicenter, comparative-effectiveness study, 210 patients with injection-confirmed SIJ pain who responded to prognostic lateral branch blocks were randomly assigned to receive CRFA of the L5 dorsal ramus and S1-S3/4 lateral branches or standard medical management (SMM) consisting of pharmacotherapy, physical therapy, injections, and integrative therapies.
Lancet Respir Med
March 2025
Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada; Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada; Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health, St Joseph's Healthcare, Hamilton, ON, Canada; Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University Medical Center, Hamilton L8N 3Z5, ON, Canada. Electronic address:
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