Manual of Fast Track Recovery for Colorectal Surgery
Manual of Fast Track Recovery for Colorectal Surgery provides a broad overview on enhanced recovery, with expert opinions from leaders in the field regarding elements of enhanced recovery care that are generic and specific to colorectal surgery. This book
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Nader Francis • Robin H. Kennedy Olle Ljungqvist • Monty G. Mythen Editors
Manual of Fast Track Recovery for Colorectal Surgery
Editors Nader Francis, MBChB, FRCS, PhD Consultant Colorectal Surgeon Department of Surgery Yeovil District Hospital Yeovil, Somerset United Kingdom Olle Ljungqvist, MD, PhD Professor of Surgery Department of Surgery Örebro University Hospital Örebro, Sweden
Robin H. Kennedy, MS, FRCS, MBBS Consultant Colorectal Surgeon St. Mark’s Hospital Harrow, United Kingdom Monty G. Mythen, MBBS, FRCA, FFICM, MD Professor of Anaesthesia and Critical Care Centre for Anaesthesia University College of London London, United Kingdom
ISBN 978-0-85729-952-9 e-ISBN 978-0-85729-953-6 DOI 10.1007/978-0-85729-953-6 Springer London Dordrecht Heidelberg New York British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Control Number: 2011944270 © Springer-Verlag London Limited 2012 Whilst we have made considerable efforts to contact all holders of copyright material contained in this book, we may have failed to locate some of them. Should holders wish to contact the Publisher, we will be happy to come to some arrangement with them. Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of research or private study, or criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, this publication may only be reproduced, stored or transmitted, in any form or by any means, with the prior permission in writing of the publishers, or in the case of reprographic reproduction in accordance with the terms of licenses issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside those terms should be sent to the publishers. The use of registered names, trademarks, etc., in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Product liability: The publisher can give no guarantee for information about drug dosage and application thereof contained in this book. In every individual case the respective user must check its accuracy by consulting other pharmaceutical literature. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) has transformed perioperative care in modern surgical practice by emphasising the patients’ optimal return to normal function after major surgery. The term ERAS was coined in 2001 by a group of academic clinicians (the ERAS Group) to replace the expression of ‘Fast Track’ surgery, and to emphasise the quality of the patients’ recovery, rather than the speed of discharge. Subsequently, this group formed the ERAS Society for perioperative care (www.erassociety.org), which is facilitating the creation of this ERAS series, together with the British section of the society (ERAS-UK, www.enhancedrecoveryhub.org). This book is long overdue. The most immediate didactic valu
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