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Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) protocols currently lack evidence-based guidelines to direct a patient's resumption of normal physical activity beyond ambulation after abdominal surgery.
ERAS lacks evidence-based activity resumption guidelines beyond ambulation; leaves open the need for targeted trials to inform post-abdominal surgery recovery.
Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) protocols have reduced rates of postoperative complications, shortened lengths of hospital stay, decreased health-care costs, and hastened functional recovery for patients. In doing so, ERAS has shifted the onus of postoperative recovery predominantly to the home setting. Although ERAS protocols standardise processes of care in the immediate perioperative period, there is a scarcity of evidence-based guidelines to direct a patient's resumption of normal physical activity beyond ambulation after abdominal surgery.
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Chamely et al. (2023) conducted an editorial in Postoperative recovery after abdominal surgery. Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) protocols and eHealth was evaluated. Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) protocols currently lack evidence-based guidelines to direct a patient's resumption of normal physical activity beyond ambulation after abdominal surgery.
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