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Best Paper Award

The Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Best Paper Award is presented annually for an original article published in the previous calendar year.

Criteria

The Editorial Board appoints a panel of three of its members to adjudicate the Best Paper Award. Qualifying papers are identified and assessed by the panel on the following criteria:

  1. Scientific content – appropriateness, methodology, quality of measurements, etc.
  2. Originality.
  3. Relevance to the practice of anaesthesia, intensive care and pain medicine.
  4. Presentation – quality of prose, style, figures, tables, etc.

Prize

  • The first author receives $2000, return airfares, accommodation for one night and travel allowances to attend the Editor’s Session at the ASA's National Scientific Congress.
  • All authors receive a certificate.

Award Recipients

Year Authors/recipients Title

2010

T. B. Corcoran, E. B. Truyens, A. Ng, N. Moseley, A. C. Doyle, L. Margetts

Anti-emetic dexamethasone and postoperative infection risk: a retrospective cohort study

2009

M. Reeves, M. W. Skinner

Continuous intra-articular infusion of ropivacaine after unilateral total knee arthroplasty

2008

N. Y. Fung, Y. Hu, M. G. Irwin, B. F. M. Chow, M. Y. Yuen

Comparison between sevoflurane/remifentanil and propofol/remifentanil anaesthesia in providing conditions for somatosensory evoked potential monitoring during scoliosis corrective surgery

2007

D. Bell, A. O’Connor, K. Leslie

The influence of flushing epidural catheters before use on detection of intravenous placement: an in vitro and in vivo study

2006

R. R. Kennedy, M. M. Sakowska

The relationship between calculated effect-site sevoflurane levels and awakening from anaesthesia

2005

K. M. Ho, H. Ismail, K.C. Lee, R. Branch

Use of Intrathecal Neostigmine as an Adjunct to Other Spinal Medications in Perioperative and Peripartum Analgesia: A Meta-Analysis

2004

C. Hayes, A. Armstrong-Brown, R. Burstal

Perioperative Intravenous Ketamine Infusion for the Prevention of Persistent Post-amputation Pain: A Randomized, Controlled Trial

2003

B. W. Johnson, J. Sleigh, I. J. Kirk, M. L. Williams

High-density EEG mapping during general anaesthesia with xenon and propofol: a pilot study

2002

N. Pollock, E. E. Langton, K. Couchman, K. M.  Stowell, M. Waddington

Suspected malignant hyperthermia reactions in New Zealand

2001

J. C. Binder, W. G. Parkin

Non-invasive cardiac output determination: Comparison of a new partial-rebreathing technique with thermodilution

2000

D. J. Fabijan, R. W. Morris, G. M. Murray

The effect of nitrous oxide on hearing

1999

P. S. Myles, J. O. Hunt, H. O.  Holdgaard, R. McRae, M. R. Buckland, J. Moloney, J. Hall, M. A. Bujor, D. S.  Esmore, B. B. Davis, D. J. Morgan

Clonidine and cardiac surgery: Haemodynamic and metabolic effects, myocardial ischaemia and recovery

1998

R. Burstal, F. Wegener, C. Hayes, G. Lantry

Subcutaneous tunnelling of epidural catheters for postoperative analgesia to prevent accidental dislodgement: A randomized controlled trial

1997

W. D. Ngan Kee, K. K. Lam, P. P. Chen, T. Gin

Comparison of patient-controlled epidural analgesia with patient-controlled intravenous analgesia using pethidine or fentanyl