Local and Regional Anesthesia
Last updated ISSN 1178-7112
Local and Regional Anesthesia is published by Dove Medical Press in medicine. It is open access. The article processing charge is $2,320.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Local and Regional Anesthesia concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Anesthesia and Pain Management
- Pain Management and Opioid Use
- Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
- Nausea and vomiting management
- Anesthesia and Sedative Agents
- Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology
- Dental Anxiety and Anesthesia Techniques
- Pediatric Pain Management Techniques
- Intraoperative Neuromonitoring and Anesthetic Effects
- Pain Management and Treatment
Key facts
| Publisher | Dove Medical Press |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1178-7112 |
| Subject area | Medicine |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | $2,320 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Emerging Sources Citation Index · Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 280 |
| Publishing since | 1975 |
| Journal website | www.dovepress.com/local-and-regional-anesthesia-jour |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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