Regional anesthesia and pain medicine
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Reg Anesth Pain Med · Mar 2015
A Standardized Anesthetic and Surgical Clinical Pathway for Esophageal Resection: Impact on Length of Stay and Major Outcomes.
Esophageal cancer is a leading cause of cancer death worldwide, and esophageal resection is associated with extremely high perioperative morbidity and mortality. A perioperative clinical pathway for esophagectomy patients in which anesthetic care is both integral and standardized has not been described previously. ⋯ We present a detailed anesthetic and surgical perioperative pathway for esophageal resection, along with evidence of improved or stable patient outcomes despite an increase in comorbidity burden and increasingly advanced tumor stage.