Key result
This comprehensive review outlines an institution's enhanced recovery protocols and perioperative care regimens for cleft lip repair, cleft palate repair, pharyngoplasty, and alveolar bone grafting.
Why the study?
Significant changes and enhanced recovery protocols have evolved in perioperative care regimens for patients undergoing cleft lip and/or cleft palate surgical reconstructions.
This comprehensive review of perioperative protocols for cleft-related surgeries may serve as a prototypical guide for other institutions.
May inform cleft surgery protocols elsewhere; leaves open prospective validation before wider adoption.
For patients born with cleft lip and/or cleft palate, surgical reconstruction(s) during early childhood serve as the foundation for attaining more normal anatomy and function of the involved areas. As a longstanding cleft and craniofacial institution, we have experienced significant changes in perioperative care regimens. Most notably, the evolution of enhanced recovery protocols has transformed how we care for our patients in the perioperative period. Part I of this publication provides an overview of our institution’s peri-operative protocols, for various cleft-related surgeries, including cleft lip repair, cleft palate repair, speech pharyngoplasty, and alveolar bone grafting. Part II will focus on orthognathic surgery and cleft lip/nasal revisions. This comprehensive review may serve as a prototypical guide for other institutions.
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Hush et al. (2024) conducted a review in Cleft lip and/or cleft palate. Enhanced recovery protocols for cleft-related surgeries was evaluated. This comprehensive review outlines an institution's enhanced recovery protocols and perioperative care regimens for cleft lip repair, cleft palate repair, pharyngoplasty, and alveolar bone grafting.
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