• Ting Li, Zhi-Jian Sun, Yan Zhou, Wei-Tong Sun, Peng-Cheng Wang, Xin-Yu Cai, Jun-Bo Liang, Jing-Ming Dong, Da-Peng Zhou, Kai Yu, Ming-Xin Wu, Jiu-Sheng He, Liang-Yuan Wen, Bao-Qing Yu, Jian Wang, Jun Yang, Feng-Fei Lin, Bing-Zuan Li, Zong-Xin Shi, Bao-Jun Wang, Ai-Guo Wang, Gui-Ling Peng, Xu Sun, Hong-Hao Xiao, Meng Mi, Xia Zhao, Chang-Run Li, Gang Liu, Shao-Liang Li, Hang-Yu Gu, Yuan Zhou, Zhe-Lun Tan, and Xin-Bao Wu.
• Department of Orthopaedic Trauma, Beijing Jishuitan Hospital, Beijing, China.
• Pain Res Manag. 2022 Jan 1; 2022: 3458056.

BackgroundThe enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) program is aimed to shorten patients' recovery process and improve clinical outcomes. This study aimed to compare the outcomes between the ERAS program and the traditional pathway among patients with ankle fracture and distal radius fracture.MethodsThis is a multicenter prospective clinical controlled study consisting of 323 consecutive adults with ankle fracture from 12 centers and 323 consecutive adults with distal radial fracture from 13 centers scheduled for open reduction and internal fixation between January 2017 and December 2018. According to the perioperative protocol, patients were divided into two groups: the ERAS group and the traditional group. The primary outcome was the patients' satisfaction of the whole treatment on discharge and at 6 months postoperatively. The secondary outcomes include delapsed time between admission and surgery, length of hospital stay, postoperative complications, functional score, and the MOS item short form health survey-36.ResultsData describing 772 patients with ankle fracture and 658 patients with distal radius fracture were collected, of which 323 patients with ankle fracture and 323 patients with distal radial fracture were included for analysis. The patients in the ERAS group showed higher satisfaction levels on discharge and at 6 months postoperatively than in the traditional group (P < 0.001). In the subgroup analysis, patients with distal radial fracture in the ERAS group were more satisfied with the treatment (P=0.001). Furthermore, patients with ankle fracture had less time in bed (P < 0.001) and shorter hospital stay (P < 0.001) and patients with distal radial fracture received surgery quickly after being admitted into the ward in the ERAS group than in the traditional group (P=0.001).ConclusionsPerioperative protocol based on the ERAS program was associated with high satisfaction levels, less time in bed, and short hospital stay without increased complication rate and decreased functional outcomes.Copyright © 2022 Ting Li et al.

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