Enhanced recovery after surgery and video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy: the Italian VATS Group* surgical protocol | Zendy

Alessandro Gonfiotti | Zendy; Domenico Viggiano | Zendy; Luca Voltolini | Zendy; Alessandro Bertani | Zendy; Luca Bertolaccini | Zendy; Roberto Crisci | Zendy; Andrea Droghetti | Zendy

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Enhanced recovery after surgery and video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy: the Italian VATS Group* surgical protocol

Author(s) -

Alessandro Gonfiotti,

Domenico Viggiano,

Luca Voltolini,

Alessandro Bertani,

Luca Bertolaccini,

Roberto Crisci,

Andrea Droghetti

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

journal of thoracic disease

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.682

H-Index - 60

eISSN - 2077-6624

pISSN - 2072-1439

DOI - 10.21037/jtd.2018.01.157

Subject(s) - medicine , cardiothoracic surgery , surgery , perioperative , surgical stress , vats lobectomy , colorectal surgery , pneumonectomy , general surgery , lung cancer , abdominal surgery , oncology

Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS ® ) is a strategy that seeks to reduce patients' perioperative stress response, thereby reducing potential complications, decreasing hospital length of stay and enabling patients to return more quickly to their baseline functional status. The concept was introduced in the late 1990s and was first adopted in patients undergoing open colorectal surgery. Since then, the concept of ERAS has been adopted by multiple surgical specialties. The diffusion of video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy (VATS-L) sets also the surgical treatment of lung cancer as a new area for ERAS development. In this paper, we present the Italian VATS Group (www.vatsgroup.org) surgical protocol as part of the ERAS clinical pathway belonging to the VATS-L national database.

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