Year: 2022

Further, the Colorectal team from Helios Dr. Horst Schmidt Kliniken Wiesbaden, Germany completed their ERAS® Implementation Program and became ERAS® Qualified at the end of May, 2022. Showing outstanding results after slightly over a year, trained by the newly appointed ERAS® Center of Excellence Helios Kliniken Schwerin lead by Prof Joerg Peter Ritz and Dr Franziska Koch.

The Colorectal team of Canisius Wilhelmina Ziekenhuis in Nijmegen, the Netherlands , has successfully implemented ERAS® for Colorectal Surgery. The team is now ERAS® Qualified with very good results! They were trained by Dr Hans de Boer and ERAS® Nurse and Coach Henriëtte Smid-Nanninga from the ERAS® Center of Excellence Martini Hospital, Groningen, Netherlands. We wish them all continued success in sustaining their ERAS® work!

Sunderby Hospital, Sweden and Dr Christopher Odensten’s ERAS® Team, has, despite the pandemic, successfully implemented ERAS® for Colorectal Surgery. The team is now ERAS® Qualified with very good results! They have been trained by Prof Ulf Gustafsson and Heléne Vibom of the ERAS® Center of Excellence Danderyd Hospital and Maysaee Quittneh of Qulturum. Further at the last seminar, Dr Lars Johansen of Skövde Hospital provided information based on their experience with ERAS® since 2015.

Hospital Universitario Valle de Hebrón in Barcelona, Spain successfully implemented ERAS® in their Gynecology Surgery department during the pandemic. The team has been supported by our partner Medtronic to work with ERAS®. They have been trained and coached through a digital on-line implementation program by Prof Adrian Alvarez and Dr Uriel Fraidenraij of University Hospital Italiano, Buenos Aires, Argentina. We wish them all continued success in their ERAS® work!

At the beginning of February 2022, the Colorectal Surgery team of Stichting Antonius Zorggroep in Sneek, the Netherlands, completed their ERAS® Implementation Program using the new generation ERAS® Interactive Audit System. In order to be ERAS® Qualified, the team have shown significant improvement in patient care by applying the ERAS® Society Guidelines and monitoring compliance. They were trained by Dr Hans de Boer and ERAS® Nurse and Coach Henriëtte Smid-Nanninga from the ERAS® Center of Excellence Martini Hospital, Groningen, Netherlands.

Despite the challenges with the pandemic, the Ospedale Infermi di Rimini in Rimini, Italy were lead by Dr Garulli and able to complete an ERAS® Implementation and become ERAS® Qualified within Colorectal Surgery. We wish the team of Dr Garulli them all continued success in their ERAS® work!

ERAS® is expanding and recently Manipal Hospital in Bangalore became the 1st hospital in India to be appointed ERAS® Qualified Center within Colorectal and Gynecology Surgery. The teams of Manipal Hospital have been supported by our partner Medtronic to work with ERAS® for a few years, lead by Professor Somashekhar and despite the pandemic challenges, shown great progress and results. They were trained by Professor Hübner and ERAS® Coach Addor of the Centre hospitaliser Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Switzerland. We wish them continued success in sustaining their good ERAS® work!