Abstract
ENHANCED RECOVERY AFTER surgery (ERAS) protocols have been implemented in adult and pediatric cardiac surgery patients and are designed to facilitate recovery, minimize cost, and decrease intensive care unit (ICU) and hospital length of stay (LOS). 1 Mittnacht Aj Thanjan M Srivastava S et al. Extubation in the operating room after congenital heart surgery in children. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2008; 136: 88-93 Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (78) Google Scholar ,2 Neirotti RA Jones D Hackbarth R et al. Early extubation in congenital heart surgery. Heart Lung Circ. 2002; 11: 157-161 Abstract Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (51) Google Scholar These protocols target multiple components of perioperative care, including hemostasis, hemodynamic stability, timing of extubation, sedation and analgesia, postoperative nausea, vomiting prophylaxis, and treatment.
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