Consensus review of optimal perioperative care in colorectal surgery: Enhanced Recovery after Surgery (ERAS) Group recommendations

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 144, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 961-969

  Lassen, Kristoffer ^a   Soop, Mattias ^b   Nygren, Jonas ^c,d   Cox, P Boris W ^f   Hendry, Paul O ^g   Spies, Claudia ^h   Von Meyenfeldt, Maarten F ^f   Fearon, Kenneth C H ^g   Revhaug, Arthur ^a   Norderval, Stig ^a   Ljungqvist, Olle ^e   Lobo, Dileep N ⁱ   Dejong, Cornelis H C ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c ERSTA HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d DANDERYD HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^e KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^f MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^g ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^h CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

ⁱ QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; CEPHALOSPORIN; DEXAMETHASONE SODIUM PHOSPHATE; DROPERIDOL; HEPARIN; INFUSION FLUID; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; MAGNESIUM OXIDE; METOCLOPRAMIDE; METRONIDAZOLE; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL DRAINAGE; ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; ANASTOMOSIS DEHISCENCE; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CARBOHYDRATE INTAKE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON ANASTOMOSIS; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL SURGERY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; ENTERIC FEEDING; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT FUNCTION; HUMAN; ILEUS; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTESTINE PREPARATION; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUNG EMBOLISM; META ANALYSIS; MOBILIZATION; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PATIENT COUNSELING; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PREMEDICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECTUM ANASTOMOSIS; REVIEW; STOMACH INTUBATION; SUPRAPUBIC CATHETERIZATION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THROMBOEMBOLISM; WOUND INFECTION;

CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; COLON; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; PERIOPERATIVE CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RECTUM;

EID: 70350220617     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.2009.170     Document Type: Review

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