What are the recommended intra- and postoperative care components for an ERAS approach in patients undergoing emergency laparotomy?
Provides consensus guidelines for intra- and postoperative care using an ERAS approach for patients undergoing emergency laparotomy.
These guidelines are based on best available evidence for an ERAS® approach to patients undergoing EL. These guidelines are not exhaustive but pull together evidence on important components of care for this high-risk patient population. As much of the evidence is extrapolated from elective surgery or emergency general surgery (not specifically laparotomy), many of the components need further evaluation in future studies.
Scott et al. (Mon,) studied this question.