Aims and Scope

Aims

JACR provides an international forum for clinicians, researchers, educators, and health professionals to communicate evidence that improves perioperative care, patient safety, pain management, critical care, and emergency practice.

Scope

JACR considers submissions across the full breadth of anesthesiology, perioperative medicine, and the subspecialties below. Manuscripts are assessed for clinical relevance, methodological soundness, and transparent reporting rather than for subspecialty area alone.

• Anesthesiology and perioperative medicine — preoperative evaluation and optimisation, intraoperative management, postoperative recovery, and perioperative risk stratification
• Obstetric and maternal anesthesia — caesarean delivery under spinal, epidural, and general anesthesia; preeclampsia and eclampsia; haemodynamic management of the parturient; neonatal outcomes after maternal anesthesia; obstetric haemorrhage and placenta accreta spectrum
• Neuroanesthesia and neurocritical care — traumatic brain injury, craniotomy and neurosurgical anesthesia, intracranial pressure and cerebral perfusion management, hydrocephalus, transsphenoidal and skull-base procedures, and neuromonitoring
• Regional anesthesia and acute pain — ultrasound-guided peripheral nerve and plexus blockade, neuraxial techniques, fascial-plane and field blocks, local anesthetic adjuvants, and opioid-sparing analgesia
• Chronic pain medicine and interventional pain management — neuropathic pain, cancer pain, neuromodulation, radiofrequency and other interventional procedures
• Critical and intensive care medicine — mechanical ventilation and weaning, sedation and analgesia strategies, haemodynamic support and vasoactive therapy, sepsis, organ support, and intensive care outcomes
• Paediatric anesthesia — neonates, infants, and children; syndromic and congenital anomalies; paediatric airway management; and paediatric critical care
• Cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia — congenital and acquired heart disease, pulmonary hypertension and right ventricular failure, thoracic and airway surgery, and vascular procedures
• Airway management — difficult and failed airway, rapid sequence induction and its modifications, videolaryngoscopy and flexible bronchoscopic techniques, awake intubation, front-of-neck access, and extubation strategies
• Emergency medicine, resuscitation, trauma, and disaster medicine
• Clinical pharmacology and applied physiology relevant to anesthesia and critical care
• Perioperative monitoring and point-of-care diagnostics — including perioperative ultrasound and echocardiography
• Patient blood management and transfusion practice — including intraoperative cell salvage and perioperative coagulation management
• Patient safety, quality improvement, medical education, and health-service research
• Palliative and supportive care relevant to perioperative and critically ill patients

Out of scope

Manuscripts without a clear link to anesthesiology, perioperative medicine, pain medicine, critical care, or emergency practice fall outside the scope of JACR and are declined without external review. Purely preclinical or laboratory work is considered only where its clinical implications for perioperative or critical care are explicit.

Article types

The journal considers original research articles, systematic reviews and meta-analyses, narrative reviews, case reports and case series, brief reports, and scholarly correspondence that are within scope. Case reports must include written informed consent for publication, appropriate anonymisation, a consent statement, and reporting consistent with the CARE guideline.

Readership

The intended readership includes anesthesiologists, intensivists, pain specialists, emergency physicians, surgeons, nurses, allied health professionals, clinical scientists, educators, policymakers, and researchers in related disciplines.

See also the Publication Schedule.