Enhanced Recovery in a Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery Program Schatz C. Enhanced Recovery in a Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery Program. AORN J. 2015 Nov;102(5):482-92. What is already known: ERAS for thoracic surgery is relatively new with limited amount of research in this area. What this paper adds: The author is a nurse at Inova Fairfax Hospital in […]

The potential for ERAS in VATS surgery Holbek BL, Horsleben Petersen R, Kehlet H, Hansen HJ. Fast-track video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery: future challenges. Scand Cardiovasc J. 2016;50(2):78-82. What is already known: There is limited evidence for ERAS programmes for minimally invasive thoracic surgery. What this paper adds: This group from Denmark, which includes Henrik Kehlet the founding father […]

Tim Batchelor graduated from Edinburgh University Medical School in 1995 and went on to train in cardiothoracic surgery in Scotland and Yorkshire. In 2007 he was appointed as a consultant in thoracic surgery at Bristol Royal Infirmary in the South West of England.   An interest in pre-operative assessment led to the introduction of enhanced […]