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01-04-2018 | Editorial Perspective

Enhanced Recovery After Surgery for Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Authors: K. McQueen, R. Oodit, M. Derbew, P. Banguti, O. Ljungqvist

Published in: World Journal of Surgery | Issue 4/2018

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The revolution of Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) is sweeping high-income countries (HICs), improving surgical and anesthesia complication rates and outcomes, and saving healthcare dollars due to fewer complications and decreased length of stay in the hospital [1]. But ERAS is not only for HICs. We propose that a modified approach to ERAS would extend protocols to improving all types of surgery in low- and lower-middle-income countries (LMICs) and would proactively create responsible anesthesia, perioperative, and surgical systems that are cost and technology appropriate, and limit complications and hospital stays. …

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Title: Enhanced Recovery After Surgery for Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Authors: K. McQueen
R. Oodit
M. Derbew
P. Banguti
O. Ljungqvist
Publication date: 01-04-2018
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Published in: World Journal of Surgery / Issue 4/2018
Print ISSN: 0364-2313
Electronic ISSN: 1432-2323
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00268-018-4481-5

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