This Week in Anesthesiology — May 28, 2026

Welcome to This Week in Anesthesiology. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning innovations in perioperative management, strategies for high-risk patient populations, and a look at evolving guidelines and future challenges for our special… This week's papers: 1. Interaction Between Admission Hemoglobin and Sex on ICU Mortality in Patients With Moderate-to-Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: A Retrospective Bicentric Cohort… — Critical Care Medicine 2026 2. Severe Preoperative Infection and Postoperative Acute Kidney Injury in Children: A Two-Hit Risk Factor for Mortality. — Anesthesia and Analgesia 2026 3. The Prevalence of Fibromyalgia in the General Population and At-Risk Subpopulations: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. — Anesthesia and Analgesia 2026 4. Plastics in the Perioperative Period: Deleterious Health Effects on Patients and Providers. — Anesthesiology 2026 5. Withholding or continuing glucose-lowering drugs for elective surgery in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a secondary analysis of the MOPED internationa… — British Journal of Anaesthesia 2026 6. Patient Blood Management in postpartum haemorrhage: a narrative review and expert opinion towards improving patient outcomes during pregnancy and childbirth. — British Journal of Anaesthesia 2026 7. Opioid Free anesthesia in cardiac surgery: The OFACAR randomized clinical trial. — Anesthesiology 2026 8. A proposed North American approach for genetic testing of individuals at risk for malignant hyperthermia. — Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia 2026 9. Prophylactic interventions to prevent rebound pain after peripheral nerve block in adults: a systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomised controll… — Anaesthesia 2026 10. The Human Factor in Clinical AI: Why Technology Alone Is Not Enough. — Annals of Internal Medicine 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/kk4yjhkyzk