Erschienen in:
01.07.2015 | Editorial
Laparoscopy in combination with fast-track management is the best surgical strategy in patients undergoing colorectal resection for cancer
verfasst von:
J.-L. Faucheron, B. Trilling
Erschienen in:
Techniques in Coloproctology
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Ausgabe 7/2015
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Excerpt
Enhanced recovery after surgery provides patients with optimal means to counteract or minimize the deleterious effects of surgery [
1]. This concept can be adapted to suit colorectal procedures and comes in the form of a clinical pathway covering the pre-, intra-, and postoperative periods. In a prospective randomized trial, Vlug et al. [
2] concluded that laparoscopy in combination with fast-track multimodal management was a better strategy than laparoscopy in a standard care or open surgery in either fast-track or standard care. We feel that laparoscopic colorectal resection for cancer in a fast-track surgery setting is probably the best way to treat patients in 2015, but this is better demonstrated by evidence-based and already published facts than by Vlug and colleagues’ [
3‐
5] prospective, randomized, four-arm trial. …