Orthopedic anesthesia involves several options for surgery anesthesia for patients undergoing finger, hand, wrist, forearm, elbow or shoulder surgery. Orthopedic anesthesia requires an extent variety of techniques to be possessed and offered to the patients. Advances in orthopedic anesthesia surgery have different anesthetic options such as spinal, epidural, and major nerve blocks or with combined regional/general anesthetic techniques. The impact factor of journal provides quantitative assessment tool for grading, evaluating, sorting and comparing journals of similar kind. It reflects the average number of citations to recent articles published in science and social science journals in a particular year or period, and is frequently used as a proxy for the relative importance of a journal within its field. It is first devised by Eugene Garfield, the founder of the Institute for Scientific Information. The impact factor of a journal is evaluated by dividing the number of current year citations to the source items published in that journal during the previous two years.
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