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01-12-2020 | Breast Surgery | ASO Author Reflections
ASO Author Reflections: Improvement in Postoperative Pain, Nausea, and Vomiting After Implementation of an Enhanced Recovery Protocol for Breast Surgery
Authors:
Kate H. Dinh, MD, MS, Emilia J. Diego, MD
Published in:
Annals of Surgical Oncology
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Special Issue 3/2020
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Excerpt
Enhanced recovery protocols (ERPs) use a multimodal, multidisciplinary approach to perioperative patient care. This approach enables clinical caregivers to design a coordinated protocol, with components working synergistically to optimize the shared goals of improved patient recovery. Multiple surgical subspecialties have developed ERPs with the aim of improving patient outcomes, specifically by decreasing postoperative pain via a multimodality approach to analgesia that also reduces perioperative opioid consumption, postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV), and hospital length of stay. In addition, ERPs have been developed for mastectomy patients undergoing autologous reconstruction.
1 However, ERPs have not been well studied among mastectomy patients not undergoing autologous reconstruction. …