Key result
Anesthesia monitoring publications surge ~11-fold over 40 years, far outstripping research on general anesthetics.
Population
Publications on 35 anesthesia-monitoring topics indexed in PubMed over the past 40 years
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May signal monitoring's growing role in anesthesia safety; leaves open causal links to mortality declines.
Scientometric analysis reveals an exponential increase in anesthesia monitoring research over 40 years, which parallels the dramatic decrease in anesthesia-related mortality.
Kissin et al. (2015) studied Anesthesia monitoring. Anesthesia monitoring publications vs. General anesthetics publications was evaluated on Number of articles and scientometric indexes (GPI, SPI, IC, IE). Over the past 40 years, publications on anesthesia monitoring increased exponentially by more than eleven-fold, significantly exceeding the growth rate of articles on general anesthetics.
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