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Michael Scott, MB ChB, FRCP, FRCA, FFICM
ERAS USA President
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Michael Wang, MD
ERAS USA-Spine President
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ERAS Spine
Symptomatic spinal pathology affects over 260 million individuals worldwide and has an enormous negative impact on health-related quality of life (HRQOL) measures, rivaling chronic diseases such as heart disease, stroke, and renal failure. Surgical intervention is indicated to prevent or mitigate neurologic decline and for pain relief, and usually entails decompression of the neural elements, instrumented stabilization, arthrodesis, or combinations of these. Spine surgeries can range from minimally invasive procedures to large, complex deformity corrections which require days of inpatient hospital admission. Despite advances in minimally invasive techniques and perioperative management, the stigma of spine surgery across a large swath of the population still exists.
ERAS for spine surgery employs multidisciplinary strategies are employed that have demonstrated cost savings risk, minimize postoperative complications, complications, and at the preoperative stage, this begins with patient counseling, expectation setting, prehabilitation, and medical optimization. The day of surgery heavily involves anesthesia considerations, such as premedication regimens to reduce postoperative pain, minimization of fluid shifts, blood loss resuscitation, and ability to avoid general endotracheal intubation. Postoperatively, focus is on pain-control, early ambulation, and minimization of opioids.
Victor W Chang, MD, FAANS
MSSIC Co-Director
Vice-Chair of Research
Co-Director of Minimally Invasive and
Deformity Spine Surgery,
Department of Neurosurgery
Henry Ford Hospital.
Clinical Associate Professor,
Wayne State University School of Medicine
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Kari Jarabek, BSN, RN
Senior MSSIC QI Lead
Michigan Spine Surgery Improvement Collaborative (MSSIC)
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 Full Spotlight
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| 10-15-2021 |
Join us for the Spine Section session of the ERAS USA Annual Meeting in New Orleans on Thursday November 11th from 8-10am. Groundbreaking talks to be delivered by Ajit Krishnaney, MD (Cleveland Clinic), Zarina Ali, MD (Penn), Ori Barzilai, MD (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center), and Ibrahim Hussain (Weill Cornell Brain and Spine Center) in addition to others. Don't miss it!
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| 09-15-2020 |
Canadian surgeons develop and validate the Calgary Postoperative Pain After Spine Surgery (CAPPS) score - a predictive tool for poor postoperative pain control following elective spine surgery
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| 05-01-2021 |
Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERASŪ) Society publishes consensus statement for preioerative care in lumbar spinal fusion
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QR Code to CAPPS Score 
This score helps predict which patients will develop poorly control pain after spinal surgery: https://calgaryspine.ca/research/capps
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| 08-01-2020 |
Penn group publishes results from implementation of ERAS protocol to decrease opioid use after spine surgery
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| 11-20-2020 |
Pair of systematic reviews by Hopkins neurosurgeons finds ERAS protocols shortens hospital admissions in adult and pediatric spine surgeries
Source
Pair of systematic reviews by Hopkins neurosurgeons finds ERAS protocols shortens hospital admissions in adult and pediatric spine surgeries
Source: J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2020 Nov 20;1-14.;
J Neurosurg Spine. 2020 Nov 6;1-23.
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| 08-01-2020 |
Pacira BioSciences, Inc. Receives Marketing Authorization by European Commission for EXPAREL treatment of peripheral nerve pain
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| 10-21-2020 |
Bangkok International Hospital Launches ERAS program for minimally-invasive spine surgery
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| 09-07-2020 |
Duke University physicians find ERAS pathway reduces opioid use, bowel/bladder dysfunction, and 90-day readmission in adult spinal deformity surgery
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