Do enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) programs reduce complications and recovery time in elderly surgical patients?
ERAS programs are an evidence-based approach to perioperative care that can significantly reduce complications and recovery time, particularly in compromised elderly patients.
This is a short overview of the principles of a novel development in surgery called enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) programs. This is an evidence-based approach to perioperative care that has shown to reduce complications and recovery time by 30-50%. The main mechanism is reduction of the stress reactions to the operation. These principles have been shown to be particularly well suited for the compromised patient and hence very good for the elderly people who often have co-morbidities and run a higher risk of complications.
Ljungqvist et al. (Fri,) studied this question.
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