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Introduction: The aim of this study was to analyze the rate of enhanced recovery programs (ERP) implementation in a range of surgical specialties in both the public and private sectors.

Methods: This was a retrospective longitudinal study based on hospital stays between March to December 2019. We studied thirteen of the activity segments most frequently included in ERP protocol.

Postoperative morbidity and mortality in patients with diabetes after colorectal surgery with an enhanced recovery program: A monocentric retrospective study.

Background: Diabetes mellitus may increase the risk of adverse perioperative outcomes and prolong hospital stay. An enhanced recovery program (ERP) reduces surgical stress and its metabolic consequences, so attenuating the impact of preoperative risk factors. We tested the hypothesis that diabetes would have only a minor impact on outcome after colorectal surgery with an ERP.

Exercise Limitation after Critical Versus Mild COVID-19 Infection: A Metabolic Perspective.

Exercise limitation in COVID-19 survivors is poorly explained. In this retrospective study, cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) was coupled with an oxidative stress assessment in COVID-19 critically ill survivors (ICU group). Thirty-one patients were included in this group.

Acute urinary retention and urinary tract infection after short-course urinary drainage in colon or high rectum anastomoses: Post hoc analysis of a multicentre prospective database from the GRACE group.

Aim: The aim was to define the risk factors for acute urinary retention (AUR) and urinary tract infections (UTIs) in colon or high rectum anastomosis patients based on the absence of a urinary catheter (UC) or the early removal of the UC (<24 h).

Method: This is a multicentre, international retrospective analysis of a prospective database including all patients undergoing colon or high rectum anastomoses. Patients were part of the enhanced recovery programme audit, developed by the Francophone Group for Enhanced Recovery after Surgery, and were included if no UC was inserted or if a UC was inserted for <24 h.

Association between use of enhanced recovery after surgery protocols and postoperative complications in colorectal surgery in Europe: The EuroPOWER international observational study.

Study Objective: Assess the relationship between the Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS®) pathway and routine care and 30-day postoperative outcomes.

Design: Prospective cohort study.

Setting: European centers (185 hospitals) across 21 countries.

Pain Characteristics in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Monocentric Cross-Sectional Study.

Background And Aims: The abdominal pain common in inflammatory bowel disease [IBD] patients is traditionally associated with inflammation but may persist during clinical remission. Central sensitization [CS] has not previously been explored in these patients. This study aimed to determine the epidemiology of pain in IBD patients and to specify pain characteristics with particular attention to CS.

[Ambulatory laparoscopic colectomy : First experiences at the CHU of Liège].

Context: For many years, enhanced recovery programs (ERP) for colorectal surgery have been developed in many hospitals around the world. Recently, our institution took a new step forward in colonic surgery : ambulatory laparoscopic colectomies.

Methods: Our eligibility criteria for our ambulatory colectomy program were defined and our perioperative ERP protocol was adapted to the ambulatory setting.

Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing in Critically Ill Coronavirus Disease 2019 Survivors: Evidence of a Sustained Exercise Intolerance and Hypermetabolism.

Unlabelled: To investigate exercise capacity at 3 and 6 months after a prolonged ICU stay.

Design: Observational monocentric study.

Setting: A post-ICU follow-up clinic in a tertiary university hospital in Liège, Belgium.

Impact of preoperative treatment with antidepressants and/or anxiolytics on outcomes after colorectal surgery with an enhanced recovery programme: a monocentric retrospective study.

Background: Preoperative use of antidepressants and anxiolytics was reported to increase length of hospital stay (LOS) and worsen surgical outcomes. However, the surgical procedures studied were seldom performed with an enhanced recovery programme (ERP). This study investigated whether these medications impaired postoperative recovery after colorectal surgery with an ERP.

Impact of Preoperative Anemia on Outcomes of Enhanced Recovery Program After Colorectal Surgery: A Monocentric Retrospective Study.

Background: Anemia is common before major abdominal surgery (35%). It is an independent factor for postoperative complications and longer length of stay (LOS). The aim of this study was to evaluate the extent to which preoperative anemia impacts on enhanced recovery programs (ERP) outcomes.

Impact of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs on the efficiency of enhanced recovery programmes after colorectal surgery: a retrospective study of the GRACE database.

Background: Multimodal analgesia is considered a key element of enhanced recovery programmes (ERPs) after colorectal surgery. We investigated the effects of NSAIDs, a major component of multimodal analgesia on adherence to ERP, incidence of postoperative complications, and length of hospital stay (LOS).

Methods: This was a retrospective study of the GRACE database that included 8611 patients scheduled for colorectal surgery with an ERP between February 2016 and November 2019.

Comparison of outcome after right colectomy with an enhanced recovery programme in patients with inflammatory bowel disease and patients operated on for other conditions: a monocentric retrospective study.

Purpose: Enhanced recovery programmes (ERPs) after surgery reduce postoperative complications and hospital stay. Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) often present risk factors for postoperative complications. This accounts for reluctance to include them in ERPs.

Energy and Protein Intake After Return Home in Colorectal Surgery Patients With an Enhanced Recovery Program: A Prospective Observational Study.

Background: In patients scheduled for colorectal surgery with an enhanced recovery program (ERP), feeding after returning home has been insufficiently investigated. The aim of this study was to measure energy and protein intake during the first month at home.

Methods: Seventy adult patients scheduled for colorectal surgery with ERP were included.

Quadriceps strength in intensive care unit survivors: Variability and influence of preadmission physical activity.

Background: Muscle weakness is common in patients who survive a stay in the intensive care unit (ICU). Quadriceps strength (QS) measurement allows evaluation of lower limb performances that are associated with mobility outcomes.

Objectives: The objective of the study was to characterise the range of QS in ICU survivors (ICUS) during their short-term evolution, by comparing them with surgical patients without critical illness and with healthy participants.

Short message service as a tool to improve perioperative follow-up of surgical outpatients: A before-after study.

Background: In outpatient surgery, the patients may be called by phone for detecting and managing perioperative problems. However, phone calls consume time and can waste caregiver's time when the patient is not available. Information and communication technologies could bridge the gap between available resources and need to contact patients.