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. 2024 May 9:17:67-77.
doi: 10.2147/LRA.S455347. eCollection 2024.

Current Status and Global Trend of Rebound Pain After Regional Anesthesia: A Bibliometric Analysis

Rui Zhou #  1 , Wencai Jiang #  2 , Qingyuan Miao  1 , Xinyang Li  1 , Lize Xiong  1
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Current Status and Global Trend of Rebound Pain After Regional Anesthesia: A Bibliometric Analysis

Rui Zhou et al. Local Reg Anesth. .

Abstract

Purpose: Rebound pain after regional anesthesia, a common phenomenon when the analgesic effect wears off, has been recognized in the last a few years. The aim of this study is to analyze the status and tendency of this area in a macroscopic perspective.

Methods: Bibliometric analysis is the primary methodology of this study. Literature retrieval was conducted in Web of Science (WoS) Core Collection. WoS, Excel, VOSviewer and CiteSpace were employed to do the analyses and visualization. Parameters were analyzed, such as publications, citations, journals, and keywords, etc.

Results: In total, 70 articles in the past 10 years were identified eligible. Most articles (14 pieces) were published in 2021, followed by 2022 and 2023 with 13 articles. Researchers come from 134 institutions and 20 countries. Huang Jung-Taek, Hallym College, and USA are the most productive author, institution and country, respectively. The articles were mainly published on the top journals of anesthesiology, orthopedics and surgery. The topic of these articles is primarily about the clinical issues of rebound pain. Peripheral nerve block, brachial plexus block and femoral nerve block are the activist keywords in the area, while perioperative management, fracture surgery and outcome may become hotpots in the next years.

Conclusion: Our results show that the study of rebound pain after regional anesthesia starts relatively late and is in upward tendency, future studies can focus on the perioperative management and outcomes of fracture patients, and the definition and mechanism of rebound pain after regional anesthesia.

Keywords: bibliometrics; peripheral nerve block; rebound pain; regional anesthesia.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no potential conflicts of interest in this work.

Figures

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Figure 1
Flowchart of the study. WoS, Web of Science.
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Figure 2
Changes of publication and citation count over time.
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Figure 3
Author analyses. (A) top-10 authors of publication number and the cited times. (B) link strength value of the 14 highest authors. (C) visualized connections of the authors.
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Figure 4
The 10 institutions (A) and countries or regions (B) with the highest number of publications. (C) the publication trend of USA, South Korea and China.
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Figure 5
Analyses of involved discipline and journal. (A) publication number of different disciplines. (B) visualized citation relationships of the journals. (C) proportion of Journal Citation Reports (JCR) quartile location of the journals.
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Figure 6
Visualization of keywords analyses. (A) co-occurrence of the keywords. (B) popularity of the keywords over time. (C) 10 keywords with the highest burst index. (D) timeline of visualization of the 8 largest clusters of the keywords.
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