BACKGROUND:
Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) focuses on optimizing each element on a treatment pathway and encouraging the patient to actively engage in his or her recovery and rehabilitation. It requires collaboration across a multidisciplinary team and has been successful in improving patient outcomes, length of stay (LOS), and costs for a wide range of surgical procedures, including musculoskeletal surgeries such as total hip and total knee replacement.
PURPOSE:
To examine the application of ERAS concepts to total shoulder replacement (TSR) surgery.
METHODS:
Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) in England on LOS for TSR surgery were examined, and a review of literature on the use of ERAS concepts in TSR was undertaken.
RESULTS:
Analysis of HES data suggested scope for improvement in reducing LOS. A review of the literature found some evidence of the use of ERAS concepts, particularly in multimodal pain management.
CONCLUSIONS:
Future research is now required for ERAS procedure-specific components for TSR surgery.
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