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01-05-2021 | Laparotomy | Invited Commentary
Invited Commentary: “Guidelines for Perioperative Care for Emergency: Laparotomy Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Society Recommendations Part 1—Preoperative: Diagnosis, Rapid Assessment and Optimization”
Authors:
Hans D. de Boer, Nicolas Demartines
Published in:
World Journal of Surgery
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Issue 5/2021
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Excerpt
Fifteen years ago, the first ERAS consensus statement was published and described perioperative care for colorectal surgery, thereby emphasizing multidisciplinary work, evidence-based interventions and quality control with interactive audit [
1]. This first success allowed the foundation of the ERAS
® Society in 2010 which promoted a global surgical, anesthesia and nursing quality improvement program in perioperative medicine. ERAS is associated with significant improvement in clinical outcome and cost savings as shown by repeated economic analysis [
2]. Over the years, an increasing number of ERAS
® Society guidelines and recommendations (19, including updates) have been published and proven to be successful in many elective surgical specialties [
3]. …