Anesthesia and Pain Medicine
Korean Society of Anesthesiologists · South Korea · Est. 2001
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Aims & Scope
APM aims to improve the safety and care of patients receiving anesthesia and the quality of anesthesiologists’ clinical practice by publishing articles on anesthesiology, including perioperative management, critical care, and pain The scope of APM includes the following: Anesthesia-related issues from the affiliated field of neuroanesthesiology Experimental and laboratory work or studies of clinical relevance in anesthetic pharmacology Anesthesia care and perioperative management for obstetric patient, pain relief in labor, and perinatal physiology and pharmacology Anesthetic care, perioperative management, and alleviation of pain in children Physiology of neuromuscular transmission and blockage, the pharmacology of neuromuscular blocking agents and their reversal agents, the principles and applications of neuromuscular monitoring, and drug interactions between neuromuscular blocking agents and other substances Anesthesia for cardiothoracic and vascular surgery and the management of patients undergoing surgery for cardiac, pulmonary, and vascular diseases Perioperative anesthesia care of transplantation surgery, physiology or pharmacology related to transplantation anesthesiology Pathophysiology, pharmacology, and all respects of spine-related pain Clinical techniques of regional blocks, anatomy, patient safety issues, and basic sciences such as pharmacology of local anesthetics or sedative drugs All fields of airway management, including difficult airways
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Ethics & Quality
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Frequently asked questions about Anesthesia and Pain Medicine
Is Anesthesia and Pain Medicine a predatory journal?
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What is the impact factor of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine?
Anesthesia and Pain Medicine is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. As an open alternative, its Scopus CiteScore is 3.5.
Is Anesthesia and Pain Medicine indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?
Anesthesia and Pain Medicine is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ.
What is the aims and scope of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine?
APM aims to improve the safety and care of patients receiving anesthesia and the quality of anesthesiologists’ clinical practice by publishing articles on anesthesiology, including perioperative management, critical care, and pain The scope of APM includes the following: Anesthesia-related issues from the affiliated field of neuroanesthesiology Experimental and laboratory work or studies of clinical relevance in anesthetic pharmacology Anesthesia care and perioperative management for obstetric patient, pain relief in labor, and perinatal physiology and pharmacology Anesthetic care, perioperati
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