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Call for papers - Enhanced recovery after surgery

Guest Editors:
Mohamed R. El Tahan: Mansoura University, Egypt & Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Saudi Arabia
Manuel Ángel Gómez-Ríos: Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de A Coruña, Spain
Akhilesh Pahade: SRMS Institute of Medical Sciences, India

Submission Status: Open   |   Submission Deadline: 14 April 2024


BMC Anesthesiology is calling for submissions to our Collection on enhanced recovery after surgery. Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) programmes with minimally invasive surgery and multimodal analgesia have become the paradigm in contemporary surgical practice to reduce inflammation, stress response, and acute and chronic postoperative pain. Implementing these strategies has significantly reduced postoperative complications, improved functional recovery, shortened the length of hospital stay and health costs, and expedited return to normal life activities. These multimodal and multidisciplinary approaches have gradually improved outcomes after surgery and perioperative care. Nevertheless, there is still a long way to go. 

Meet the Guest Editors

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Mohamed R. El Tahan: Mansoura University, Egypt & Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Saudi Arabia

Mohamed El Tahan is a Professor in cardiothoracic anesthesia and surgical intensive care at Mansoura University, Egypt, and an Associate Professor at the Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Saudi Arabia. His research interests include mechanical ventilation, haemodynamic monitoring, fast-track cardiac anaesthesia, airway management, aortic surgery, thoracic and obstetric anaesthesia, and gender balance. Prof. El Tahan is a member of the European Association of Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia and Intensive Care (EACTAIC) Board of Directors and Thoracic Committee. He serves as a member in the Board of Directors and the Thoracic Committee of the Egyptian Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia Society (ECTAS). Prof. El Tahan is a member of the Editorial Board in BMC Anesthesiology.

Manuel Ángel Gómez-Ríos: Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de A Coruña, Spain

Dr. Manuel Ángel Gómez-Ríos MD, PhD, earned his Degree in Medicine and Surgery at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Santiago de Compostela. He is a Consultant Anesthesiologist of Spain, author of several publications indexed on Pubmed, member of the Editorial Board and peer-reviewer of several international journals. His research experience covers 15 years in tertiary care centers. His 100 peer-reviewed international publications covered many areas of clinical research. He is head of the research group "Anesthesiology and pain management". His main research interests focus on clinical trials, difficult airway, clinical monitoring, postoperative acute pain, and perioperative medicine.

Akhilesh Pahade: SRMS Institute of Medical Sciences, India

Dr. Akhilesh Pahade is an Assistant Professor at the SRMS Institute of Medical Sciences, India. His areas of interest include cardiac-thoracic anesthesia and onco-anesthesia (robotic surgeries/ HIPEC), obstetric anesthesia, and ERAS. He gained experience in over 10 years' work in reputed institutions like SGPGI (Lucknow), Fortis Hospital (New Delhi), and Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute and Research Center (New Delhi).

About the collection

Surgical patients are increasingly frail and undergo procedures of substantial complexity. Maintaining the targets of effectiveness, safety, quality of care, and cost-effectiveness is challenging for healthcare workers, health systems, and insurers. Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) programmes with minimally invasive surgery and multimodal analgesia have become the paradigm in contemporary surgical practice to reduce inflammation, stress response, and acute and chronic postoperative pain. Implementing these strategies has significantly reduced postoperative complications, improved functional recovery, shortened the length of hospital stay and health costs, and expedited return to normal life activities. These multimodal and multidisciplinary approaches have gradually improved outcomes after surgery and perioperative care. Nevertheless, there is still a long way to go. 

To expand knowledge and share new insights related to Perioperative Medicine, we have launched a BMC Anesthesiology collection called “Enhanced Recovery After Surgery”. 

We invite submissions from all aspects of this developing field, including, but not limited to: 
•    Preoperative patient communication and preparation
•    Goal directed fluid therapy
•    Transfusion triggers for blood/blood products or role of transfusion in eras
•    Ambulation and precautions

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  1. ERAS programs aim to reduce the length of hospital stays and lower costs, and minimize the risk of postoperative complications and readmissions while enhancing the overall patient experience. BMC Anesthesiolog...

    Authors: Mohamed R. El Tahan, Akhilesh Pahade and Manuel Ángel Gómez-Ríos
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2023 23:274
    Content type: Editorial Published on:

Submission Guidelines

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This Collection welcomes submission of Research Articles. Before submitting your manuscript, please ensure you have read our submission guidelines. Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. During the submission process you will be asked whether you are submitting to a Collection, please select ["Enhanced Recovery After Surgery"] from the dropdown menu.

Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all of the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.

The Guest Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer review process. The peer review of any submissions for which the Guest Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.