IMpact of PerioperAtive KeTamine on Enhanced Recovery After abdominal Surgery (IMPAKT ERAS). Comment on Br J Anaesth 2025; 135: 1770-8.

Alexandre Joosten, Amelie Delaporte, Nancy M Boulos, Yann Gricourt, Patrice Forget

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Article in British journal of anaesthesia, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Alexandre JoostenDepartment of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, CA, USA. Electronic address: ajoosten@mednet.ucla.edu.

Amelie DelaporteDepartment of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Nancy M BoulosDepartment of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Yann GricourtDepartment of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, CA, USA; Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Nimes University Hospital, Nimes, France; IMAGINE UR UM 103, Montpellier University, Anesthesia Critical Care, Emergency and Pain Medicine Division, Nîmes University Hospital, Nîmes, France.

Patrice ForgetIMAGINE UR UM 103, Montpellier University, Anesthesia Critical Care, Emergency and Pain Medicine Division, Nîmes University Hospital, Nîmes, France; Aberdeen Centre for Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Health (Epidemiology Group), Institute of Applied Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition, Aberdeen, UK; Department of Anaesthesia, NHS Grampian, Aberdeen, UK; Pain and Opioids after Surgery (PANDOS) European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ID ESAIC_RG_PAND) Research Group, Brussels, Belgium.

Funding

Multidisciplinary Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine Research Training ProgramT32GM148369 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI Maxime Cannesson, Mansoureh Eghbali · 2023 to 2026

$1.1M

NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM148369

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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analgesicsketamineoutcomepostoperative complicationsquality of recovery

Identifiers

PMID41266162

DOI10.1016/j.bja.2025.10.030

PMCPMC13498408

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