Table 2.
Specific anesthesiology subspecialties areas and search terms used.
| Subject Area | Focus | Search Terms |
|---|---|---|
| Airway management | Intubation, difficult airway | "difficult-airway" intubation |
| Cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesiology | Cardiothoracic anesthesiology and intraoperative cardiac pathology | "bypass" "cardiac" "cardio*" "heart" "transfusion" "thoracic" "single lung" "one lung" "lung isolation" "vascular" "aneurysm" |
| General anesthesiology and physiology | Articles that pertained to field as a whole | "sedation" "monitored-anesthesia-care" "MAC" "line-placement" "cannula*" |
| Head and neck surgery (including neurophysiology) | Neuroanesthesia and anesthesiology for head and neck surgery | "neurosurgery" "crani*" "cerebral-blood-flow" "intracranial-pressure" "carotid endart*" |
| Monitors | Hemodynamic monitors and monitors of depth of anesthesiology (excluding monitors of surgical techniques) | "monitor" "safety" "record" "inform*" "echo*" |
| Obstetric anesthesiology | Including environmental and occupational studies | "obstetric anes*" "labor analgesia" |
| Pain (basic science and clinical management) | Basic sciences included pharmacology and acute physiology, while chronic included clinical management of patients with chronic pain | "pain" "opioid" "opiate" |
| Pediatric anesthesiology | Including both anesthesiology and pain | "pediatric" "paediatric" |
| Preoperative medicine | Precardiovascular screening for non-cardiac surgery, preoperative optimization, and other disease-risk stratification | "preop*" "periop*" "intraop*" |
| Postoperative care | Postoperative pain management, nausea and vomiting, and other physiologic complications of anesthesiology (excluding pulmonary) | "postop*" "PACU" "postanesthesia" "postanaesthesia" |
| Pharmacology | Mainly volatile anesthetics, intravenous anesthetics, and neuromuscular blocking drugs (local anesthetics and opiods were addressed elsewhere) | "local anes" "local anaes" "nondepolariz*" "succinylcholine" "malignant hyper*" "intravenous anes" "intravenous anaes" "inhalation anes*" "volatile anes*" "neuromuscular-block*" "paralytic" |
| Regional and neuraxial anesthesiology | Safety and use of regional and neuraxial anesthesiology including pharmacology and physiology | "regional anes*" "regional anaes*" "neuraxial anes*" "neuraxial anaes*" "epidural" "spinal" "subarachnoid" "intrathecal" "ambulatory surgery" |
| Pulmonary | Intraoperative ventilatory management, pulmonary physiology, and postoperative pathology | "ventilator" "hypoxia" |
| Fluid management | Intraoperative fluid optimization and transfusion medicine | "transfusion" "fluid" "blood" |
* Indicates a wildcard to return any string of characters
"Subject" indicates the subspecialty area. "Focus" indicates the desired content of the subject or subspecialty area. "Search terms" are the actualy keywords used for the searches.