Fast-Track Surgery – Conditions and Challenges in Postsurgical Treatment: A Review of Elements of Translational Research in Enhanced Recovery after Surgery | Zendy

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Fast-Track Surgery – Conditions and Challenges in Postsurgical Treatment: A Review of Elements of Translational Research in Enhanced Recovery after Surgery

Author(s) -

Henry Hoffmann,

Christoph Kettelhack

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

european surgical research

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.658

H-Index - 46

eISSN - 1421-9921

pISSN - 0014-312X

DOI - 10.1159/000339859

Subject(s) - medicine , medline , fast track , perioperative , clinical trial , intensive care medicine , translational research , systematic review , protocol (science) , surgery , alternative medicine , pathology , political science , law

Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) or fast-track surgery is a perioperative and postoperative care concept initiated in the early 1990s aiming to reduce the length of hospital stays following elective abdominal surgery. Twenty treatment items defined in the Consensus Guidelines established in 2009 were included in this concept. The success of ERAS depends highly on multidisciplinary teamwork and patient compliance. Several ERAS items and their impact on perioperative and postoperative care have recently been discussed. In this connection, translational research topics triggered increasing interest in ERAS and new impulses aimed at improving the ERAS concept. We thus reviewed the surgical literature to highlight the role of translational research items in ERAS.

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