NEWS

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.

The University Hospital Reina Sofia in Cordoba, Spain recently completed their ERAS® Implementation Program within Liver and Colorectal Surgery. They started their ERAS® journey just before the pandemic outbreak and have, as many, faced different types of challenges throughout this time. But despite the burden, they were able to uphold good spirit to no become ERAS® Qualified Center.

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!

At the end of 2021, two Dutch Colorectal Surgery teams from respectively the Regional Hospital Queen Beatrix and the One Lieve Vrouwe Gasthuis (OLVG) were ERAS® Qualified. Both teams 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.

The surgical team of Complexo Hospitalar de Niterói, Niterói, Brazil, were able to complete the ERAS® Implementation Program after a touch period of pandemic. They were trained and coached 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!

Despite the tough situation with COVID-19, the surgical team of Hospital Santa Paula, São Paulo, Brazil, were able to complete an ERAS® Implementation Program. They were trained and coached 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!

Despite the tough situation with COVID-19, the Urology Surgical team lead by Dr Guillaume Guichard at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Besançon, France completed their ERAS® implementation which started in 2019 and became ERAS® Qualified in the Urology/Cystectomy ERAS® Protocol in July, 2021. They were trained by the ERAS® Coach Valérie Addor at the ERAS® Center of Excellence Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Switzerland. We wish them all continued success in their ERAS® work!

On June 16, 2021, the Gynecology Team of CHUM, represented by Dr Vanessa Samouëlian, Chantal Zaryczny, Elise Hillman and Laetitia Jourdan, presented their ERAS® work carried out since 2015. Based on their work, progress shown and results, they were approved for ERAS® Qualification by the ERAS® Society.

Hospital São Lucas Copacabana, Brazil successfully implemented ERAS® in their respective Colorectal Surgery departments during the pandemic. They have been trained and coached 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!

Despite the tough situation with COVID-19, the surgical team of São Camilo, São Paulo, Brazil, were able to complete an ERAS® Implementation Program. They are the first ERAS® Qualified team for the Bariatric Surgical Protocol in Brazil.

ERAS® QUALIFIED – UNIVERSITÄTSKLINIKUM MANNHEIM, GERMANY Congratulations to

The team at Helios Klinikum Krefeld, Germany successfully presented the final results of their ERAS® Implementation online to their trainers at the Centre hospitalier universitaire vaudois, Switzerland and the Encare team in Sweden. They are eager to continue to improve their work and spread ERAS® to their colleagues.

S. Croce e Carle Hospital in Cuneo, Italy is

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Teams from Norway and Portugal have recently completed their ERAS® Implementation Programs.

In the last quarter of 2017, several teams completed the ERAS Implementation Program and have shown significant improvements in the perioperative care pathway. 

A newly published article about the ERAS® Implementation Program in Alberta, Canada details the challenges and opportunities.

Live webcast from the Mayo Clinic, USA, on April 19, 2017 on Enhanced Recovery After Surgery within Gynecologic Oncology. Experts in this emerging field will present up to date information and real world experience.

In November an ERAS® Alumni was held in Stockholm with the EIAS users of Sweden. 

Two teams from Martini Ziekenhuis, Netherlands and Hospital Beatriz Ângelo, Portugal completed the ERAS® Implementation Program.

The final seminar of the ERAS Implementation Program was held on 13th of July 2016 at CMC in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. Please see further details here.