Monthly archives for October 2020

This is a short interview with nurses Jennie Burch and Angie Balfour. It aims to highlight the importance of preoperative patient education, a cornerstone principle of ERAS, which aims to prepare patients for their operation and their recovery. Both Angie and Jennie have been working as ERAS nurses for over a decade in Edinburgh, Scotland […]

Registration is now open for the previously announced, ERAS® Society 10th anniversary World day. This global webinar will take place on the 14th November, 2020 Clinical experts in the ERAS® Society from around the world will deliver a series of short lectures and discuss key ERAS® papers. Join the free webinar from wherever you are! Click here for the […]

  We are delighted to announce a global ERAS SOCIETY® webinar on 14th November 2020 spaced several hours apart  for three different time zones. There will be a number of lectures and key papers with input from major contributors to Worldwide ERAS, including our Chairman, Professor Olle Ljungqvist and other members of the Executive Committee. Choose a  […]

ERAS LatAm is the Latin American chapter of the ERAS® Society. Its mission is to facilitate the full implementation of an ERAS program in the countries of South America and the Caribbean. It also seeks to promote the training of its members and formalise a network for the creation of knowledge.   [Go to ERAS […]

The opioid crisis, in which addiction and harm are related to pain-relieving opioid drugs, has been well documented. It has been concentrated in the USA but is now affecting most Western nations and increasingly, developing countries also. In some cases, this addiction and subsequent harm begins when the patient is given these drugs for pain […]