Evidence Review Conducted for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Safety Program for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery: Focus on Anesthesiology for Bariatric Surgery

What is it about?

Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) protocols for bariatric surgery are increasingly being implemented and reports suggest that they may be associated with superior outcomes. We have conducted an evidence review to select anesthetic interventions which positively influence outcomes and facilitate recovery after bariatric surgery. Anesthesiology-related interventions for pre-(carbohydrate loading/fasting, multimodal preanesthetic medications), intra-(standardized intraoperative pathway, regional anesthesia, opioid minimization and multimodal analgesia, protective ventilation strategy, fluid minimization), and postoperative (multimodal analgesia with opioid minimization) phases of care are included.

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