In 2019, the World Journal of Anesthesiology (WJA) has published the 1^st issue which containing 1 review. The comprehensive article is “Post-operative urinary retention: Review of literature”, a review by Rakesh Garg et al, DNB, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care, Pain and Palliative Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India. We invite you to peruse this article in this issue, as they present the latest research progress/findings and provide insightful comments in anesthesiology that will guide basic research and clinical practice in these fields. 

This journal is an open-access journal which allows free immediate access to all full-text articles. For details, please visit: Volume 8, Issue 1, January 15, 2019.

Figure 1 The cover of the issue. Editor-in-Chief of World Journal of Anesthesiology, Luis E Tollinche, MD, Associate Professor, Attending Doctor, (E-mail: tollincl@mskcc.org) Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10038, United States. 

We encourage anesthesiology worldwide to submit manuscripts to the WJA describing their original basic or clinical research findings that are of high academic value and which report new diagnostic techniques or summarize their treatment experiences. 

We invited the readers to download and read the E-Journal of this issue.