Enhanced recovery after caesarean delivery versus standard care studies: a systematic review of interventions and outcomes

Enhanced recovery is a multimodal care pathway designed to improve postoperative outcomes, reduce complication rates and decrease hospital length of stay.1 Obstetric units throughout the world now use enhanced recovery after caesarean delivery (ERAC) programs. Despite this, the interventions included in ERAC pathways and the outcomes that have been used to assess the impact of ERAC appear to be inconsistent and heterogeneous.2 The Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology (SOAP) in the USA has taken steps towards providing guidance in this area by recently publishing its ERAC implementation consensus recommendations, which provide a list of core recommended interventions needed in order to deliver ERAC.
Source: International Journal of Obstetric Anesthesia - Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Tags: Review article Source Type: research