Use when targeting Anesthesiology or deciding whether an anesthesiology, perioperative-medicine, pain, or critical-care study fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the perioperative-trial and translational bar, reporting-guideline and registration requirements, ASA house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics. Venue-fit aid only, not clinical advice.
SkillScore77Maintained
Automatic
◆Clinical / Healthcare pack
Last verified 9/1/2026
What it changes
Passed 17 of 22 test cases with the skill, and 7 of 22 without it.
Without skill32%
With skill77%
Checks it passed that the model alone missed
Recommends jama-surgery as the re-route target venue
Recommends re-routing to basic neuroscience journals
Structures evaluation output using bracketed key fields
and 10 more in the full report
10 fixed7 passed either way5 still failing0 broke
Pass-rate lift
+45 pp
Tokens
+11%
Agent turns
0%
Response time
-39%
Model gemini-3.6-flashMeasured 9/1/2026v117 of 22 cases passed with skill
Tokens, turns and time describe resource use, not a dollar price.
See it in action
One of 10 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.
1 of 10
Prompt
We mapped retinotopic visual cortex representations in awake mice using two-photon calcium imaging without administering any anesthetic agents or perioperative stressors. Evaluate venue fit.
What was checked, without and with the skill
Checked
Without skill
With skill
Rates fit as Low due to absent anesthetic mechanism or perioperative connection
Missed
Passed
Recommends re-routing to basic neuroscience journals
Missed
Passed
case-16 · gemini-3.6-flash · 9/1/2026 · answers are capped and redacted
What's inside
The instructions your model reads when the skill loads.
SKILL.md120 linessingle file
Anesthesiology (anesthesiology)
Journal positioning
Anesthesiology is the flagship journal of the American Society of Anesthesiologists
(ASA), publishing clinical and translational research across anesthesiology,
perioperative medicine, pain medicine, and critical care — anesthetic pharmacology and
mechanism, perioperative outcomes, patient safety, regional and pain management, and
peri-operative organ protection. Its defining expectation is a rigorous,
clinically meaningful advance in perioperative or anesthetic care, or a mechanistic
insight into anesthetic action and perioperative physiology, not an underpowered
single-center trial, a descriptive case series, or a basic experiment with no
perioperative anchor. The journal places strong emphasis on rigorous perioperative-trial
reporting — prespecified outcomes, registration, and analysis matched to design. This
skill is a fit / venue-selection / re-framing aid; it is not clinical or regulatory
advice and does not replace the journal's current instructions for authors. Before
submitting, re-check the live Anesthesiology author instructions.
When to trigger
The author names Anesthesiology for an anesthesiology, perioperative, pain, or
anesthesia-related critical-care study and wants a fit/framing check.
A perioperative study must be re-framed around a patient-centered perioperative outcome or
an anesthetic-mechanism question.
The author is choosing between Anesthesiology, a surgical journal, and a critical-care or
pain-specialty venue.
The author needs the journal's perioperative-trial reporting, registration, and
translational-study expectations.
Scope & topic fit
Perioperative clinical trials and outcomes: anesthetic technique, hemodynamic management,
and postoperative complications/mortality.
Anesthetic pharmacology and mechanism: drug action, depth-of-anesthesia, and neurophysiology
of consciousness and analgesia.
Patient safety, monitoring, and quality in the perioperative period.
Regional anesthesia, acute and chronic pain medicine, and analgesic outcome studies.
Perioperative organ protection and critical care related to surgery and anesthesia.
Translational and animal studies of anesthetic mechanism, neurotoxicity, or organ injury
with perioperative relevance.