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ERAS in Colorectal Surgery

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The ERAS collaboration all started in colorectal surgery. This chapter explains why a new perioperative regime was particularly necessary within this field of surgery and also gives an overview of all the items within the ERAS protocol, how to understand compliance to the items, and why they are all important to audit. Finally, future opportunities to investigate new surgical and treatment methods within the excellent environment provided by the ERAS prptocol will be dicussed.

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  1. Department of Clinical Sciences, Department of Surgery, Danderyd Hospital, Karolinska Institutet, Danderyd, Stockholm, Sweden

    Ulf O. Gustafsson

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    Olle Ljungqvist

  2. Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Higher Kingston, Yeovil, Somerset, UK

    Nader K. Francis

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

    Richard D. Urman

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Gustafsson, U.O. (2020). ERAS in Colorectal 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_40

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