Improved Outcomes of Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Protocol for Radical Cystectomy with Addition of a Multidisciplinary Care Process in a US Comprehensive Cancer Care Center

World Journal of Surgery
Sephalie Y PatelMichael A Poch

Abstract

Although enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) components include both anesthesia and surgical care processes, it is unclear whether a multidisciplinary approach to implementing ERAS care processes improves clinical outcomes. The addition of multidisciplinary care with anesthesiology-related components to an existing ERAS protocol for radical cystectomy at a US comprehensive cancer center provided an opportunity to compare short- and long-term outcomes. We retrospectively compared the outcomes of 116 consecutive patients who underwent cystectomy after implementation of a multidisciplinary ERAS protocol with those of a historical control group of 143 consecutive patients who had been treated with a surgical ERAS protocol. Length of stay, return of bowel function, rate of blood transfusion, nausea, pain, and readmission rates were examined. Implementation of a multidisciplinary ERAS protocol was associated with better postsurgical symptom control, as indicated by lower rates of patient-reported nausea (P < .05). Multivariate Poisson regression analysis showed a decrease in estimated intraoperative transfusions (P ≤ .001) after adjusting for the effects of potential confounding variables. There were no statistically significant d...Continue Reading

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