Key result
Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) programs reduce length of stay and complications in adults, but pediatric data remains sparse, prompting this educational review on implementation strategies.
This review highlights the potential of ERAS protocols to improve surgical outcomes in pediatric patients, despite the current sparsity of pediatric-specific data compared to adults.
ERAS may benefit select pediatric surgical patients; leaves open the need for dedicated pediatric RCTs before routine adoption.
Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) is a multimodal approach to the care of the surgical patient focused on reducing the stress response and associated physiologic changes that accompany surgery. Over the past 20 years, ERAS programs have been found to result in reduced LOS and complications in adult patients. Despite abundant adult literature describing implementation and outcomes of enhanced recovery programs, pediatric data in this area is sparse. This educational review describes the history and elements of ERAS protocols, reviews the available evidence in adult and pediatric populations, compares and contrasts ERAS with the PSH, and offers strategies for implementation and ideas for future directions of ERAS in children.
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Rove et al. (2018) conducted a review in Surgery in children. Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) was evaluated. Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) programs reduce length of stay and complications in adults, but pediatric data remains sparse, prompting this educational review on implementation strategies.
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