ERAS Program in Thoracic Surgery Analyzed the Effects on the Rates of Complications, Readmission and Length of Stay

We designed our centre's ERAS program through different measures during the preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative period. This program incluided received comprehensive multidisciplinary information, daily goals and expected discharge date, explained the expansión exercises, the video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) under general anaesthesia combined with regional techniques, leaving only one chest tube at the end of the surgery, maintain normothermia, extubation after the end of the surgery, and early removal of the urinary catheter. From the time of extubation, the patients began oral tolerance and respiratory physiotherapy exercises. Also, the patients were allowed to walk around early.