Comment on: Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Improves Clinical Outcomes in Adolescent Bariatric Surgery

Taking into consideration rising rates of childhood obesity US,1 and recent reports demonstrating the safety, efficacy and increased utilization rates of metabolic and bariatric surgery (MBS) for clinically eligible pediatric patients (BMI ≥ 120% of the 95th percentile or BMI ≥ 35kg.m2),2 the authors of the current study, Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Improves Clinical Outcomes in Adolescent Bariatric Surgery, have offered important insights by presenting the results of a single institutional experience related to the use of an enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) protocol.
Source: Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases - Category: Surgery Authors: Tags: Editorial Source Type: research