TY - JOUR
T1 - Enhanced recovery after surgery and video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy
T2 - the Italian VATS Group surgical protocol
AU - Gonfiotti, Alessandro
AU - Viggiano, Domenico
AU - Voltolini, Luca
AU - Bertani, Alessandro
AU - Bertolaccini, Luca
AU - Crisci, Roberto
AU - Droghetti, Andrea
PY - 2018/3
Y1 - 2018/3
N2 - Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS®) is a strategy that seeks to reduce patients' perioperative stress response, thereby reducing potential complications, decreasing hospital length of stay and enabling patients to return more quickly to their baseline functional status. The concept was introduced in the late 1990s and was first adopted in patients undergoing open colorectal surgery. Since then, the concept of ERAS has been adopted by multiple surgical specialties. The diffusion of video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy (VATS-L) sets also the surgical treatment of lung cancer as a new area for ERAS development. In this paper, we present the Italian VATS Group (www.vatsgroup.org) surgical protocol as part of the ERAS clinical pathway belonging to the VATS-L national database.
AB - Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS®) is a strategy that seeks to reduce patients' perioperative stress response, thereby reducing potential complications, decreasing hospital length of stay and enabling patients to return more quickly to their baseline functional status. The concept was introduced in the late 1990s and was first adopted in patients undergoing open colorectal surgery. Since then, the concept of ERAS has been adopted by multiple surgical specialties. The diffusion of video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy (VATS-L) sets also the surgical treatment of lung cancer as a new area for ERAS development. In this paper, we present the Italian VATS Group (www.vatsgroup.org) surgical protocol as part of the ERAS clinical pathway belonging to the VATS-L national database.
U2 - 10.21037/jtd.2018.01.157
DO - 10.21037/jtd.2018.01.157
M3 - Review article
C2 - 29629203
VL - 10
SP - S564-S570
JO - Journal of Thoracic Disease
JF - Journal of Thoracic Disease
SN - 2072-1439
IS - Suppl 4
ER -