[Principles of fast track surgery. Multimodal perioperative therapy programme]

(Prinzipien der Fast-Track-Chirurgie. Multimodale perioperative Therapieprogramme.)

Full Abstract

Recent evidence has documented that a combination of single-modality evidence-based care principles into a multimodal effort to enhance postoperative recovery (the fast track methodology) has led to enhanced recovery with reduced medical morbidity, need for hospitalisation and convalescence. Nevertheless, general implementation of fast track surgery has been relatively slow despite concomitant economic benefits. Further improvement in postoperative outcome may be obtained by developments within each care principle with a specific focus on minimally invasive surgery, effective multimodal, non-opioid analgesia and pharmacological stress reduction.

Author information

Author/s: Kehlet, H (H);

Affiliation: Section for Surgical Pathophysiology, Rigshospitalet Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, Denmark. henrik.kehlet(-atsign-)rh.dk

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: English Abstract; Journal Article; Review

Journal: Der Chirurg; Zeitschrift für alle Gebiete der operativen Medizen (Chirurg), published in Germany. (Language: ger)

Reference: 2009-Aug; vol 80 (issue 8) : pp 687-9

Dates: Created 2009/08/11; Completed 2009/10/28;

PMID: 19669716, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 10/28/2009, IMS Date: )

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