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Pediatric Enhanced Recovery After Surgery

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Enhanced Recovery After Surgery

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Surgical standardization and optimization in pediatrics is relatively new compared to well- described and well-established concepts of enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) in adult patients. However, evidence-based pediatric ERAS pathways that focus on optimizing all phases of surgical care can also provide value in pediatric surgical specialties by promoting multispecialty collaboration to improve the overall surgical experience of the child and the child’s family unit. Thoughtfully planned and carefully executed, pediatric ERAS protocols show great promise to hasten surgical recovery while reducing the surgical stress response, complication rates, and surgical costs for a variety of surgical procedures.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Anesthesiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA

    Andrew D. Franklin

  2. Department of Surgery, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA

    Mehul V. Raval

  3. Department of Surgery, Alberta Children’s Hospital, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Mary E. Brindle

  4. Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Wallis T. Muhly

  5. Department of Pediatric Urology, Children’s Hospital Colorado, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA

    Kyle O. Rove

  6. Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Pediatric Surgery, Children’s Health Care of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Kurt F. Heiss

  7. Pediatric Urologic Surgery, Children’s Hospital of Richmond, Department of Surgery, Division of Urology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA

    C. D. Anthony Herndon

  8. Department of Anesthesiology, Virginia Commonwealth University Health System, Richmond, VA, USA

    Michael J. Scott

  9. Department of Pediatric Urology, Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Martin A. Koyle

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  3. Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women’s, Hospital Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

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Franklin, A.D. et al. (2020). Pediatric Enhanced Recovery After Surgery. In: Ljungqvist, O., Francis, N., Urman, R. (eds) Enhanced Recovery After Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33443-7_58

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