Monthly archives for December 2018

The new and updated “Guidelines for Perioperative Care in Elective Colorectal Surgery: Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS®) Society Recommendations: 2018” are now available online by clicking here. View all of the ERAS Society guidelines by clicking here.

The “Guidelines for enhanced recovery after lung surgery: recommendations of the Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS®) Society and the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons (ESTS)” are now available online by clicking here. View all of the ERAS Society guidelines by clicking here.

The “Guidelines for Perioperative Care in Esophagectomy: Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS®) Society Recommendations” are now available online by clicking here. View all of the ERAS Society guidelines by clicking here.

ERAS Society guidelines have recommended that mechanical bowel preparation (MBP) should not be used for patients undergoing colonic surgery and that it should be used selectively for patients undergoing rectal surgery. This has been based on the fact that mechanical bowel preparation on its own did not impact on morbidity and mortality in these patients […]

A new article has just been published in the Nursing Standard featuring ERAS Society Nurse Section Chair, Angie Balfour. Pearce ,L.(2018).Recovery after surgery: time to break with tradition. Nursing Standard, 33(6), 70-72.doi:10.7748/ns.33.6.70.s27 Click here for the full article

Save The Date for the ERAS USA 3rd Annual Congress, to be held in New Orleans, on 14-16 Nov 2019.

The second annual SwERAS conference was successfully held in November 2018, with 110 participants from a variety of professions and medical specialties. Twentyfour different hospitals, from three countries, were represented. The sessions included a broad variety of topics. There was an in depth discussion after a large survey concerning practical implementation of the ERAS program […]