Expert review Delayed return of gastrointestinal function after hepatectomy in an ERAS program: incidence and risk factorsSara Arfa et al. HPB. 2022 (1) What is already known: Oral nutrition can be initiated early after hepatectomy, and ERAS guidelines recommend oral nutrition after liver surgery (2). Moreover, one RCT and one recent meta-analysis showed that routine […]

Enhanced Recovery After Surgery in Octogenarians undergoing hepatopancreatobiliary surgery Jordan N Robinson, Joshua M K Davis, Ryan C Pickens, Allyson R Cochran, Lacey King, Patrick Salibi,, David A Iannitti, John B Martinie, Erin H Baker, Lee M Ocuin, Dionisios Vrochides. Am Surg 2021 Dec 4;31348211054063.doi:10.1177/00031348211054063 What is already known: The application of ERAS after hepato-pancreato-biliary […]

Impact of 2016 Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Recommendations on Outcomes after Hepatectomy in Cirrhotic and Non-Cirrhotic Patients Thibault Lunel et al. World J Surg. 2021 (6)   What is already known: ERAS has been shown to be safe and to improve outcomes in liver surgery (1,2). Several studies and meta-analyses have shown that ERAS […]

Dr. Didier Roulin is a senior fellow in Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary (HPB) surgery at Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) in Switzerland. He is also holding a position of senior lecturer and Privat Docent at Lausanne University. He has been actively involved in Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) for more than ten years with more than twenty publications and […]

Dr Gaëtan-Romain Joliat graduated from the medical school of the University of Lausanne (UNIL) in Switzerland and is also certified by the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) in the United States. He received his medical doctorate (MD) in 2015 from the same university. He obtained the Swiss board certification (FMH) in general surgery […]

Dr. Emmanuel Melloul was born and raised in Switzerland, and received his medical degree at Lausanne University. He is a Hepatobiliary (HPB) and Pancreatic surgeon, and completed his General Surgery at the university hospital of Lausanne (Switzerland), and HPB fellowship specialty training at the university hospital of Beaujon (Paris, France) and Icahn school of Medicine […]