Congratulations to the 2024 Anesthesia & Analgesia and A&A Practice Editorial Award Winners!

For the first time this year, editorial awards were presented to authors to recognize important articles published in the IARS journals during a special awards session, “Anesthesia & Analgesia and A&A Practice Editorial Awards Session” on Sunday, May 19 at the 2024 Annual Meeting, presented by IARS and SOCCA. Awards included A&A Editors’ Choice, A&A Practice Editors’ Choice, Top Cited and Top Viewed. An engaged group of editors and attendees gathered to discover who was recognized for each award and to learn more about these vital manuscripts and research. Of the six awardees, three recipients (Monica Vavilala, MD, Caitlin Akard Bradley, MD, and Sherri Ozawa, MSN, RN) joined in person to present while two more (Hai Yu, MD, PhD and Jean Wong, MD, FRCPC) were able to share their research virtually with the group. Unfortunately, one recipient (Carmen E. Lopez, MD) was unable to present.

Anesthesia & Analgesia Editor-in-Chief Jaideep Pandit, MA, DPhil, FRCA, DM, University of Oxford, led this exciting spotlight on important research published in the journals. Congratulations to all the recipients!

Learn more about their manuscripts below.

A&A Editors’ Choice

The Anesthesiology Physician-Scientist Pipeline: Current Status and Recommendations for Future Growth-An Initiative of the Anesthesia Research Council
Monica Vavilala, MD, board certified anesthesiologist and director of Harborview’s Injury Prevention and Research Center (presented in person)

Volatile Versus Total Intravenous Anesthesia on Postoperative Delirium in Adult Patients Undergoing Cardiac Valve Surgery: A Randomized Clinical Trial
Hai Yu, MD, PhD, Department of Anesthesiology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China (presented virtually)

Association Between the FRAIL Scale and Postoperative Complications in Older Surgical Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Jean Wong, MD, FRCPC, an associate professor of anesthesiology at the University of Toronto, and staff anesthesiologist at University Health Network and Women’s College Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada (presented virtually)

A&A Practice Editors’ Choice

Ultrasound Rounds: Anesthesiologist-Performed Intraoperative Point-of-Care Focused Assessment With Sonography in Trauma Examination Changes Surgical Management
Caitlin Akard Bradley, MD, an assistant professor, department of anesthesiology, Emory University (presented in person)

A&A Top Cited

A Global Definition of Patient Blood Management
Sherri Ozawa, MSN, RN, clinical director, patient blood management, Institute for Patient Blood Management and Bloodless Medicine and Surgery; Society for the Advancement of Patient Blood Management (SABM) (presented in person)

A&A Top Viewed

The Management of Pregnant Trauma Patients: A Narrative Review
Carmen E. Lopez, MD, assistant professor, anesthesiology (obstetric anesthesiology), Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine (unable to present)

Be sure to attend next year’s Anesthesia & Analgesia and A&A Practice Editorial Awards Session in Hawaii!