For the second year in a row, dedicated ERAS Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery sessions will be held at the American Association for Thoracic Surgery 99th Annual meeting on May 4-7 in Toronto, Canada.
There will be eight sessions dedicated to ERAS/perioperative medicine. These will include presentations by the lead author of the ERAS® Society Thoracic Guidelines, Dr. Tim Batchelor, Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, Bristol, UK; as well as the ERAS® Cardiac Guidelines by Dr. Daniel Engelman, University of Massachusetts-Baystate, Springfield, MA, USA.
The sessions will include 17 selected high-quality peer-reviewed abstracts and separate sessions dedicated to preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative interventions to optimize the care of both cardiac and thoracic surgical patients.