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Enhanced Recovery After Major Gastrectomy for Cancer

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Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) protocols have gained increasing popularity over the past 10 years, and its overarching objectives are to improve perioperative morbidity and reduce postoperative length of stay. Consensus guidelines from the ERAS Society specific to major gastrectomy were published in 2014, however since that time, prospective and retrospective studies have expanded the collective evidence for both the content and efficacy of ERAS pathways for gastrectomy. This objective of this review was to summarize recent data pertinent to the preoperative, perioperative, and postoperative management of gastrectomy patients along an ERAS pathway.

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  2. Division of Pain Medicine and Pain Research, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Annie W. Hsu MD

  3. Division of Gastric and Mixed Tumors, Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

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Hu, Y., Hsu, A.W. & Strong, V.E. Enhanced Recovery After Major Gastrectomy for Cancer. Ann Surg Oncol 28, 6947–6954 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-021-09906-y

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