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Opportunities and Challenges for the Next Phase of Enhanced Recovery After Surgery

Olle Ljungqvist, Hans D. de Boer, Angie Balfour, William Fawcett, Dileep N. Lobo, Gregg Nelson, Michael J. Scott, Thomas W. Wainwright, Nicolas Demartines

JAMA Surgery · 2021

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Summary

Importance: Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) is a global surgical quality improvement initiative now firmly entrenched within the field of perioperative care. Although ERAS is associated with significant clinical outcome improvements and cost savings in numerous surgical specialties, several opportunities and challenges deserve further discussion. Observations: Uptake and implementation of ERAS Society guidelines, together with ERAS-related research, have increased exponentially since the inception of the ERAS movement. Opportunities to further improve patient outcomes include addressing frailty, optimizing nutrition, prehabilitation, correcting preoperative anemia, and improving uptake of ERAS worldwide, including in low- and middle-income countries. Challenges facing enhanced recov

Source type
Peer-reviewed study
DOI
10.1001/jamasurg.2021.0586
Catalogue ID
SNmoj4411a-l8x1yo
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