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An enhanced recovery clinical pathway using a multidisciplinary approach aims to reduce postoperative stress and complications, improve recovery, and decrease hospital length of stay.
An enhanced recovery clinical pathway utilizing a multidisciplinary approach can help reduce postoperative stress and complications in colorectal surgery patients.
May support enhanced recovery pathways in colorectal surgery; leaves open confirmation in prospective trials.
This is the third part of a three-part series describing how an enhanced recovery clinical pathway uses a multidisciplinary team to reduce postoperative stress and complications, improve recovery, and decrease hospital length of stay without affecting patient safety for patients undergoing colorectal surgery. Last month, multimodal analgesia and standardized postoperative nausea and vomiting prophylaxis were discussed. This part discusses fluids, diet, tubes and drains, and early mobilization.
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Maxson et al. (2011) conducted a review in Colorectal surgery. Enhanced recovery clinical pathway was evaluated. An enhanced recovery clinical pathway using a multidisciplinary approach aims to reduce postoperative stress and complications, improve recovery, and decrease hospital length of stay.
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