Zhou Lian Zhen, Li Xuan, Zhou Li Min
Department of Anesthesiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Shandong First Medical University, Tai' an, People's Republic of China.
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Clinic, Qilu Hospital, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, People's Republic of China.
J Pain Res. 2023 Oct 19;16:3491-3502. doi: 10.2147/JPR.S429719. eCollection 2023.
The postoperative acute pain caused by surgery has been a major problem plaguing anesthesiologists, and even some acute pain progresses to chronic pain syndrome, terribly reducing the quality of life of patients. To this end, increasing attention has been paid to the management of perioperative analgesia. At present, with the increase of research on perioperative analgesia, the understanding and solution of this clinical problem have been further developed. Bibliometrics can estimate research hot-spots and trends of related fields in a certain period of time. However, a systematic bibliometric analysis has not been conducted to explore current research hotspots and future development trends, which is thus the purpose of this study.
Articles and reviews published from 2012 to 2021 were retrieved from the Web of Science Core Collection (WoSCC) database, and the bibliometric analysis of the keywords and references of articles was performed using VOSviewer1.6.18. Besides, the number of articles related to perioperative analgesia in term of countries, affiliations, authors, and journals were analyzed.
Finally, 3157 articles meeting the screening requirements were retrieved, and it was hereby found that the research on perioperative analgesia had received more attention and interest in the past 10 years, with the United States making more contributions, where there were eight of the top ten affiliations by the number of publications. Kaye AD was the most active researcher in this field. Most related articles were published in Anesthesia and Analgesia, accounting for 2.76% of all literature. Enhanced recovery after surgery, different types of anesthesia and multi-mode analgesic drug intervention were the main trends and hotspots.
Perioperative analgesia has attracted considerable academic interest. In the past decade, the effects of enhanced recovery after surgery, different types of anesthesia and multi-mode analgesic drug intervention on perioperative analgesia have become the research hotspots, which are also likely to be the focus of future study.
手术引起的术后急性疼痛一直是困扰麻醉医生的主要问题，甚至一些急性疼痛会发展为慢性疼痛综合征，严重降低患者的生活质量。为此，围手术期镇痛管理受到越来越多的关注。目前，随着围手术期镇痛研究的增加，对这一临床问题的认识和解决方案得到了进一步发展。文献计量学可以估计特定时期内相关领域的研究热点和趋势。然而，尚未进行系统的文献计量分析来探索当前的研究热点和未来的发展趋势，因此本研究旨在进行此项分析。
从Web of Science核心合集（WoSCC）数据库中检索2012年至2021年发表的文章和综述，并使用VOSviewer1.6.18对文章的关键词和参考文献进行文献计量分析。此外，还分析了围手术期镇痛相关文章在国家、机构、作者和期刊方面的数量。
最终检索到3157篇符合筛选要求的文章，发现围手术期镇痛研究在过去10年中受到了更多关注，美国贡献较大，出版物数量排名前十的机构中有八个来自美国。Kaye AD是该领域最活跃的研究者。大多数相关文章发表在《麻醉与镇痛》杂志上，占所有文献的2.76%。术后加速康复、不同类型的麻醉和多模式镇痛药物干预是主要趋势和热点。
围手术期镇痛引起了相当大的学术兴趣。在过去十年中，术后加速康复、不同类型的麻醉和多模式镇痛药物干预对围手术期镇痛的影响已成为研究热点，也可能是未来研究的重点。
