Advances in Perioperative Care: Challenges and Perspectives in Enhanced Recovery After Surgery, Perioperative Optimization and Prehabilitation: 2nd Edition
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "General Surgery".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2026 | Viewed by 475
Special Issue Editor
2. Colorectal Surgery Department, Clínica Santa Elena, 28003 Madrid, Spain
Interests: oncology; colorectal cancer; rectal cancer organ preservation; proctology; inflammatory bowel disease; functional disorders; fecal incontinence; minimally invasive surgery; robotic surgery; enhanced recovery after surgery; surgery prehabilitation
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Dear Colleagues,
Following on from the success of our first Special Issue, entitled “Advances in Perioperative Care: Challenges and Perspectives in Enhanced Recovery After Surgery, Perioperative Optimization and Prehabilitation” (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/jcm/special_issues/LHUCW4DOZ2), we are launching a second edition, which continues to report on clinical research.
The field of perioperative care has undergone a real revolution over the last 25 years. First, the rapid spread of enhanced perioperative recovery pathways, and later, the spread of prehabilitation, have revolutionized the rules of management of patients scheduled for surgery. Despite this, the implementation of such strategies in many centers is suboptimal, and there are still many issues on which evidence is lacking.
The aim of this Special Issue is to serve as a forum to critically address the most relevant and, above all, some of the most unexplored aspects of perioperative medicine, from education, strategies for implementation, maintenance, possible areas for future improvement, and, most importantly, the long-term outcomes and patient-reported outcome measures.
Priority is given to high-quality, original studies, but well-designed and conducted systematic reviews (with or without a meta-analysis) are welcome. In summary, the Special Issue aims to increase clinicians’ knowledge of poorly explored areas of perioperative care, as well as to provide a balanced, sound, and evidence-based overview of the advances and potential perspectives in the field.
Dr. Carlos Cerdán Santacruz
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- perioperative care
- enhanced recovery after surgery
- prehabilitation
- minimally invasive surgery
- patient-related outcome measures
- colorectal surgery
- general surgery
- thoracic surgery
- vascular surgery
- optimal functional recovery
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