ERAS Society Gynecology Guidelines featured at the 47th Annual Meeting on Women’s Cancer held in San Diego, USA.

The recently published ERAS Society Gynecology Guidelines were given high level exposure at the 47th Annual Meeting on Women’s Cancer held in San Diego, California, USA March 18-22.

The guidelines were highlighted in the Farr Nezhat Surgical Innovation Session. Professor Olle Ljungqvist presented on the history and development of Enhanced Recovery in the Farr Nezhat Plenary lecture. This was followed by presentation of the Guidelines by first author Dr Gregg Nelson of Univ Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Dr Sean Dowdy, Senior author of the Guidelines, presented his experience introducing ERAS at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. Dr Dowdy co-chaired the session along with Dr Pedro Ramirez from MD Anderson, Houston Texas, who also played a key role in the Guideline work.

Three young investigators presented their work related to ERAS to close the session: Drs. LA Meyer, MD Anderson; J N Bakkum-Gamez, Mayo Clinic; and SC Modesitt, Univ Virginia. The next step underway is the formation of a Gynecology Chapter within the ERAS Society – more to come about this shortly.