In this video ERAS Society Chairman, Prof Olle Ljungqvist talks about how important it is to comply to ERAS care elements if you want to improve patient outcomes through ERAS programmes.
In a new editorial in the British Journal of Anaesthesia, Prof Dileep Lobo and colleagues argue that it is time to sit back and rethink about how we view ‘waiting lists’ for elective surgery. The article is titled “Turning ‘waiting lists’ for elective surgery into ‘preparation lists’”.
For the full article click here
The ERAS® Interactive Audit System, can now also be used to track your patient’s Covid-19 status. This will be beneficial for surgical teams to keep track of the patient’s Covid-19 status and identify how the patient’s Covid-19 status affects the outcome of care.
The selection items are based on the WHO Clinical Coding for Covid-19. Since some studies show long term effects in COVID patients, this data can be used to study how these cases respond to recovery after surgery in the long run.
The ERAS® Interactive Audit System comes with a set of protocols based on the ERAS® Society published guidelines and is used to register, measure, and audit your patient’s perioperative care process.
If you are using an audit system for ERAS® practice, there are some parameters that may be of high value to you for planning backlog surgeries and identifying the best perioperative measures. Please read more here.
Please contact Encare directly if you have questions regarding the ERAS® Interactive Audit System and how to implement ERAS®.
On the 18th August 2020, a Memorandum of Understanding between the ERAS Society and the First University Hospital of Lanzhou China was signed. Prof Li, president of the First University Hospital of Lanzhou signed, along with Prof Olle Ljungqvist and Prof Nicolas Demartines from the ERAS Society. The agreement proceeds the formal implementation of an HPB ERAS program in Lanzhou. This will be the first Chinese ERAS affiliated hospital!
The first collaborative Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Society guideline for optimal perioperative care for vulvar and vaginal surgery has recently been published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Congratulations to all of the authors for their roles in producing this valuable work.
Click here to access the guidelines.
Congratulations to Dr Laurent Bollag and Prof Gregg Nelson on their recent editorial titled “Enhanced Recovery After Cesarean (ERAC) – beyond the pain scores” published earlier this month in the International Journal of Obstetric Anesthesia.
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Members of the ERAS Society Executive Committee; Prof Olle Ljungqvist, Prof Gregg Nelson, and Prof Nicolas Demartines have just published an editorial in the World Journal of Surgery describing the post COVID-19 surgical backlog and the role ERAS can play in helping to deal with it.
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Congratulations to Prof Mary Brindle and colleagues on their new publication. The article compares the differences between enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS), perioperative surgical home and fast-track surgery. It explains the various components of an ERAS protocol in paediatrics, and proposes future directions for multidisciplinary paediatric standardised care protocols.
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As JAMA Surgery celebrates 100 years in publication, it has recently announced some important milestones
It has also named the article “Enhanced Recovery After Surgery: A Review” written by Prof Olle Ljungqvist, Prof Michael Scott, and Prof Kenneth Fearon as one of the top 5 articles in the journal.
Click here to read the article, which has been viewed over 42,000 times and cited 550 times.
There is an open call for papers focussing on Nursing and Allied Health Professional research in ERAS.
The journal Medicina has an open Special Issue titled “Nursing and Allied Health Professional Focused Research on Enhanced Recovery after Surgery (ERAS)”. It is calling for articles that highlight the innovative work undertaken by nurses and allied health professionals within ERAS pathways across all surgical specialties.
Research led by or involving nurses, operating department practitioners, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, dieticians, pharmacists, radiographers, healthcare assistants, or any other non-medical professionals involved in ERAS is being welcomed. This includes research from work conducted at the pre-operative, intra-operative, post-operative, and post-discharge stage.
For more details click here
Brief summary: After including the results of two recent randomised controlled trials, this updated meta-analysis suggests that oral antibiotics alone or a combination of mechanical bowel preparation and oral antibiotics is superior to no bowel preparation in patients undergoing colorectal surgery when surgical site infection and anastomotic leak rates are considered.
The article is available here.
Prof Dileep Lobo
Professor Olle Ljungqvist joined colleagues at the National Nordic Museum’s “Nordic Innovation Summit 2020 presented by Ericsson”, a virtual event held on May 14, 2020, to talk about ERAS.
There is a link below to watch the session