Perfecting the surgical journey.

The ERAS Cardiac Newsletter provides insight into current topics on enhanced recovery, new developments and research, Society news, as well as information on recent publications and upcoming meetings.

Highlights of the January 2023 Newsletter:

• Intra-operative Transit Time Flow to evaluate coronary grafts.
• Patient-Centered Outcomes Research helps patients and caregivers find value in healthcare.
• Advanced-Practice Providers are vital members of the ERAS Team.
• Patient feedback can improve the discharge process after cardiac surgery.
• Advice on post-discharge telemedicine.
• Recent ERAS related publications.
  
  

Editor: Rawn Salenger MD

The ERAS Cardiac Society is pleased to announce a new membership initiative. By establishing a formal membership program, ERAS Cardiac hopes to better engage individuals with a shared interest in continuing to improve perioperative cardiac surgical care.

Membership benefits will include:

- Access to our soon-to-be-launched ERAS Cardiac Virtual Training Center (VTC). This online educational platform will allow users to pursue self-directed learning by accessing high-quality multi-media content from international experts.

- Invitations to virtual webinars and town-halls exclusive to members-only.

- Opportunities to become involved in the ERAS Cardiac Society through participation in committees, invited presentations, publications, and research.

- Access to our full on-line archive of recommended publications on ERAS for cardiac surgery.

- Quarterly ERAS Cardiac Newsletter emailed directly to members.

- Potential discounts on ERAS Cardiac meetings and publications.

ERAS Cardiac Membership is anticipated to be open late 2022/early 2023.

We will continue to keep the ERAS community updated via email.

If you are interested in the ERAS Cardiac Membership, please let us know via our website Contact Page.

The ERAS Cardiac Society is excited to announce that in the near future we will be launching a brand new online educational platform: ERAS Cardiac Virtual Training Center (VTC). The VTC will be an opportunity for healthcare providers, trainees, and patients to pursue self-directed learning about enhanced recovery for cardiac surgery. Learners will be able to browse a comprehensive selection of Modules related to ERAS Cardiac history, care elements, and implementation. Bringing together international ERAS experts, we will create an online learning experience based on a wide selection of high-quality and informative multi-media presentations, pod-casts, recommended publications, and other educational content.

Modules & Topics for the initial ERAS Cardiac VTC launch will include:

Module 1: ERAS Cardiac – Overview & Concepts

• History of ERAS
• Principles of ERAS
• History of ERAS Cardiac

Module 2: Core Elements

• Active chest tube clearance
• AKI prevention
• Delirium
• Early Extubation
• Goal-directed therapy
• Multimodal analgesia
• Nutrition
• Patient Engagement
• Prehabilitation
• Rigid sternal fixation
• Surgical Site Infection Reduction

Module 3: Future of ERAS Cardiac

• Atrial fibrillation
• Blood conservation
• Goal-directed perfusion
• PONV
• Regional anesthesia

Module 4: Program Development and Implementation

• Build your ERAS Team
• Engaging patients
• Facilitating organizational change
• Common barriers to implementation
• ERAS Cardiac Audit

Access to the VTC will be limited to ERAS Cardiac Society Members, another new initiative that we are undertaking.

Click below to learn more about the upcoming ERAS Cardiac Membership:

ERAS Cardiac VTC launch is anticipated to be in late 2022/early 2023. We will continue to keep the ERAS community updated via email.

If you are interested in the VTC or ERAS Cardiac Membership, please let us know via our website Contact Page.

Congratulations to our ERAS Cardiac Society President, Dr. Dan Engelman on recently being named Senior Perioperative Editor for the Annals of Thoracic Surgery (ATS).

From the Annals of Thoracic Surgery Website:

"The mission of The Annals of Thoracic Surgery is to promote scholarship in cardiothoracic surgery patient care, clinical practice, research, education, and policy. As the official journal of two of the largest American associations in its specialty, this leading monthly enjoys outstanding editorial leadership and maintains rigorous selection standards.

The Annals of Thoracic Surgery features:

• Full-length original articles on clinical advances, current surgical methods, and controversial topics and techniques
• New Technology articles
• Reviews of current literature
• Supplements on symposia
• Commentary pieces and correspondence
• CME
• Online-only case reports, "how-to-do-its", and images in cardiothoracic surgery.

An authoritative, clinically oriented, comprehensive resource, The Annals of Thoracic Surgery is committed to providing a place for all thoracic surgeons to relate experiences which will help improve patient care."