Outcomes after ERAS for liver resection surgery

Outcomes after ERAS for liver resection surgery

Hughes MJ, Chong J, Harrison E, Wigmore S. Short-term outcomes after liver resection for malignant and benign disease in theage of ERAS. HPB (Oxford). 2016 Feb;18(2):177-82.

What is already known:

Predictors of postoperative morbidity have been studied at length over the years but there is less evidence for predictors of morbidity in patients undergoing ERAS programmes.

What this paper adds:

This is a retrospective study in a unit that is experienced in ERAS for liver surgery. In over 600 patients, using univariate and multivariate analysis, they found that only extended (liver) resection was a predictor of morbidity within an ERAS program for open liver resection surgery.

Chris Jones, Guildford.