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Effect of Smartphone App Postoperative Home Monitoring After Oncologic Surgery on Quality of Recovery: A Randomized Clinical Trial

There has been an increase in health care-focused smartphone apps, including those for encouraging healthy behaviours and managing chronic conditions, but app-assisted postsurgical care has yet to be fully explored. The authors attempted to compare the quality of recovery and patient satisfaction between conventional in-person follow-up and smartphone app-assisted follow-up for patients following ERAS protocols. […]

Framework for a new guideline for lower extremity vascular bypass

Congratulations to Katherine McGinigle and the rest of the writing team for their work on this new consensus statement. This was a joint venture between the ERAS Society and Society for Vascular Surgery. A formal collaboration between the two societies who elected an international, multi-disciplinary panel of experts to review the literature and provide evidence […]

Calling all AHPs involved in ERAS!

Allied health professionals (AHPs) play a critical role in the successful implementation of Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) pathways. AHPs such as physiotherapists, occupational therapists, dietitians, and speech therapists, play an integral role in ERAS pathways by providing key components of the program, including preoperative assessment and optimization, intraoperative care, and postoperative rehabilitation.   The […]

In memory – Eivind Warberg

This summer we lost one of our national ERAS® leaders. Eivind Warberg sadly died in a drowning accident in Norway. Eivind was the lead Doctor for ERAS at Östvold hospital, and was about to take on a teaching position for the Norwegian ERAS® Society. Dr Warberg was born in the Faro islands in 1976, got […]

NOW ONLINE: The ERAS and COVID-19 global seminar

This free ERAS® Society webinar broadcasted on Saturday 27th of February in Europe and the Americas and March 6 in Australasia entitled “ERAS and COVID-19” covers how COVID-19 has developed a massive backlog of patients in need of surgery and how Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) programs offers ways to manage this crisis in surgery […]

Update – 2021 World Congress of the ERAS® Society and ERAS® USA

We regret to inform you that the World Congress of the ERAS® Society and ERAS® USA due to be held in New Orleans in July 2021 has been cancelled due to the uncertainties involving travel and gatherings because of Covid-19. We hope to organise the next World Congress in Europe in April/May 2022. We will […]