The paper outlines the Italian VATS Group surgical protocol for implementing Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) in video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy.
ERAS protocol for VATS lobectomy provides a framework; leaves open need for prospective outcome validation before adoption.
) is a strategy that seeks to reduce patients' perioperative stress response, thereby reducing potential complications, decreasing hospital length of stay and enabling patients to return more quickly to their baseline functional status. The concept was introduced in the late 1990s and was first adopted in patients undergoing open colorectal surgery. Since then, the concept of ERAS has been adopted by multiple surgical specialties. The diffusion of video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy (VATS-L) sets also the surgical treatment of lung cancer as a new area for ERAS development. In this paper, we present the Italian VATS Group (www.vatsgroup.org) surgical protocol as part of the ERAS clinical pathway belonging to the VATS-L national database.
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Gonfiotti et al. (2018) studied Lung cancer. Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) protocol for video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy (VATS-L) was evaluated. The Italian VATS Group presents a surgical protocol for enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) in patients undergoing video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy for lung cancer.
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