Chinese 中文11th ERAS World Congress, September 17-19th 2025, Turin, Italy.
The 11th ERAS World Congress was held from September 17th- 19th 2025 in the Lingotto Conference Centre, Turin. This iconic building once housed the Fiat car factory and is famous for the old roof-top test racing track.
We partnered with Professor Luca Gianotti from Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, and the Italian ERAS Chapter.
As is now the tradition, on the Wednesday before the main congress we had the hugely popular education course in the morning, followed by some break out sessions for several different specialities, which again was very well attended. (Nursing, AHP & ANP; Obstetrics & Gynaecology; Paediatrics and Urology)
The focus of the main scientific meeting was to help celebrate 30 years since ERAS principles were first introduced and 20 years since our first guidelines were produced.
The first session focussed on how to deliver ERAS. With talks on a few specific guidelines, together with an overview of how the guidelines have changed over the last twenty years.
The first keynote lecture was the prestigious Kehlet lecture. Professor Ivan Lisnyy from Ukraine shared his story of delivering ERAS in a wartime setting. His courage, humanity, and message of resilience touched everyone in the room — and he was rightly honoured with a standing ovation. 💙💛
The second session focussed on cancer care; with talks on nutrition, RIOT, Gynae-oncology ERAS and chronic pain in cancer patients.
The afternoon session was on LMIC and ERAS. With some fascinating talks on the challenges of ERAS delivery in a resource poor environment, how to standardise anaesthesia and surgery to improve outcomes, as well as how the new ERAS Trama guidelines could be adapted to the LMIC setting.
The second keynote lecture was the Olle Ljungqvist Lecture, given by Prof Elena Giovanna Bignami on Artificial Intelligence for Surgical Patients. Unfortunately due to unforeseen circumstances, she couldn’t be there in person so it was given as a pre-recorded video.
This was followed by the always popular abstract session, where it’s a chance to hear from the next generation of researchers.
The second day started with an interesting session on Surgical Conundrums. With talks on synchronous surgery in cancer, very early discharge, minimally invasive surgery, the surgical perspective of goal directed fluid therapy, and a fascinating talk on how the colonic microbiome could affect surgical outcomes.
This was followed by an equally interesting session on perioperative medicine. With talks covering CPET, neurological monitoring, anaemia, perioperative steroid therapy and prehabilitation.
The third of our keynote lectures was the Fearon lecture. This year given by our very own Professor Mike Scott: The changing landscapes of managing and detecting postoperative complications.
The afternoon session continued with the nursing and AHP session. Angie Balfour, our Nursing Chair started it off with some fantastic recorded videos of patients reporting the benefits of ERAS. Other topics included the use of technology to monitor patients at home after discharge, challenges of implementation, planning of physical exercise in the preoperative phase and nutritional health.
The final session was one of the highlights. Entitled early career ERAS. Where we had some great talks on Sexism, Social Media and Sustainability, passing the ERAS torch and a fascinating one on ERAS for animals.
Award winners:
Best OBGYN Session Abstract
From Department Chairs to Residents: an assessment of ERAS awareness and application at gynecologic surgery in Austria. Pan T.L, Hutter C, Tsibulak I, Tamussino K.
Best Nursing / AHP / ANP Session Abstract
Improving surgical outcomes through design thinking – an ERAS ward concept.
Chan KKW, How KY, Lim VQ, Tan FWY, Hu HL, Darmawirya P.
Best Poster of Distinction
Clinical study of ERAS protocol in patients undergoing elective craniotomy: a randomized controlled trial.
Fang K, Chen J, Zhou X, Gong Q, Gou T, Zhang J, Han G, Wu M, Ma Y, Gang S.
Best Oral Abstract
Implementation yields success – results of the enhanced recovery in children undergoing surgery (ENRICH-US) randomized controlled trial.
Raval M
There were many highlights of the Congress. The Kehlet, Ljungqvist and Fearon lectures were all outstanding and thought provoking in equal measure. However the incredible talk from Prof Lisnyy about ERAS in a wartime setting will forever be remembered.
The popularity of the congress continues to grow, with 440 delegates attending. With a good spread of different specialities, including nurses, dieticians, physiotherapists, pharmacists, occupational therapy and a good number of students / residents.
We had a record number of abstracts submitted, the majority presented as posters, but also a good number presented at the main conference abstract session, as well some at the Ob/Gyn and Nursing sessions.
The huge success of the congress is only made possible by the hard work of the organising committee and local committee, led by Prof Bill Fawcett, to whom we express our sincere gratitude. In addition we are hugely grateful to the support we get from industry and the expert assistance from Noema.
We are also delighted to announce that our 12th ERAS® World Congress will be held on 14-16th May 2026 in Singapore.
Breaking Frontiers, Strengthening Foundations.
