Anesthesiology (anesthesiology)

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Anesthesiology is the flagship journal of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), publishing clinical and translational research across anesthesiology, perioperative medicine, pain medicine, and critical care — anesthetic pharmacology and mechanism, perioperative outcomes, patient safety, regional and pain management, and peri-operative organ protection. Its defining expectation is a rigorous, clinically meaningful advance in perioperative or anesthetic care, or a mechanistic insight into anesthetic action and perioperative physiology, not an underpowered single-center trial, a descriptive case series, or a basic experiment with no perioperative anchor. The journal places strong emphasis on rigorous perioperative-trial reporting — prespecified outcomes, registration, and analysis matched to design. This skill is a fit / venue-selection / re-framing aid; it is not clinical or regulatory advice and does not replace the journal's current instructions for authors. Before submitting, re-check the live Anesthesiology author instructions.

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