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ArticleInnovative surgical sciences2019

Modern perioperative medicine - past, present, and future.

Harry F Dean, Fiona Carter, Nader K Francis

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Article in Innovative surgical sciences, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Harry F DeanDepartment of General Surgery, Yeovil District Hospital, Higher Kingston, Yeovil, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0842-8987
Fiona CarterEnhanced Recovery after Surgery Society (UK) c.i.c., Yeovil, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6041-3187
Nader K FrancisDepartment of General Surgery, Yeovil District Hospital, Higher Kingston, Yeovil BA21 4AT, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8498-9175

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Modern perioperative medicine has dramatically altered the care for patients undergoing major surgery. Anaesthetic and surgical practice has been directed at mitigating the surgical stress response and reducing physiological insult. The development of standardised enhanced recovery programmes combined with minimally invasive surgical techniques has lead to reduction in length of stay, morbidity, costs, and improved outcomes. The enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) society and its national chapters provide a means for sharing best practice in this field and developing evidence based guidelines. Research has highlighted persisting challenges with compliance as well as ensuring the effectiveness and sustainability of ERAS. There is also a growing need for increasingly personalised care programmes as well as complex geriatric assessment of frailer patients. Continuous collection of outcome and process data combined with machine learning, offers a potentially powerful solution to delivering bespoke care pathways and optimising individual management. Long-term data from ERAS programmes remain scarce and further evaluation of functional recovery and quality of life is required.

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enhanced recoveryERASperioperative medicinesurgery

Identifiers

PMID33977121
PMCPMC8059350

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