Enhanced Recovery after Surgery: Implementation in the Preoperative and Postoperative Management of Children Undergoing Cardiac Surgery Is Low and Differs Across European Centers
ERACS implementation for children undergoing cardiac surgery varies substantially among the responding centers and is overall low, particularly during the preoperative period. ERACS centers show a higher implementation of measures such as a liberal approach to preoperative fasting and early drain removal but lack in other measures, such as preoperative treatment of anemia and assessment of nutritional status. Overall, these data demonstrate a large potential for improvement in the preoperative and postoperative management of children undergoing cardiac surgery.
Authors
- Christian Stoppe (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2028-2039)
- Christiane E. Beck (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7179-0084)
- Ehrenfried Schindler (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2377-3327)
- Sascha Meier (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5953-1784)
- Maren Kleine‐Brueggeney (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5595-8529)
- Nicolas Hellner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-9009-829X)
- Daniel Catena
- Jonas Borzel
Institutions
- University Medical Center Groningen (NL)
- University of Groningen (NL)
- University Hospital Bonn (DE)
- Medizinische Hochschule Hannover (DE)
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (DE)
- Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité (DE)
- Freie Universität Berlin (DE)
- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin (DE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia
- Published
- 2025-07-16
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1053/j.jvca.2025.07.012
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Enhanced Recovery After Surgery
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 4.01