Does the enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) protocol improve outcomes in patients undergoing DIEP flap breast reconstruction?
The ERAS protocol accelerates postoperative recovery, reduces hospital length of stay, lowers pain scores, and decreases adverse health issues in patients undergoing DIEP flap breast reconstruction.
An enhanced recovery after surgery protocol contributes an accelerated postoperative recovery of patients undergoing a DIEP flap breast reconstruction. In this study a significant decrease was found in hospital length of stay, patient-reported pain score and adverse health issues.
Gort et al. (Thu,) studied this question.