Launch of JA Clinical Reports

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I am pleased to announce to our readers that the first issue of JA Clinical Reports will launch soon, a companion journal to the Journal of Anesthesia (JA). Case reports are rarely cited and as such they are rarely accepted for publication. However, case reports remain very important from the point of view of education and the cultivation of scientific thinking in the field of anesthesia, because most new findings, techniques, and treatments are reported first in a clinical report. Therefore, the Japanese Society of Anesthesiologists (JSA) has decided to launch a new journal, JA Clinical Reports. This journal is an open-access journal dedicated to the publication of clinical reports [Case Reports, Clinical Research Letters (Short Communications), Letters to the Editor (only correspondence relating to a recently published article in JA Clinical Reports)] that are related to the practice of clinical anesthesia, pain management, and intensive care. …