Concept Renewal Leads to Behavior Progress: Interpretation on the Surgical Part of Consensus on ERAS and Guidelines for Pathway Management in China (2018)

The concept and pathway of enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) have been widely accepted and proved to be beneficial in terms of improving postoperative outcomes in China. In 2018, experts from the Chinese Society of Surgery and the Chinese Society of Anaesthesia jointly organized and published the Consensus on ERAS and Guidelines for Pathway Management in China (2018) in both Chinese Journal of Practical Surgery and Chinese Journal of Anesthesiology at the same time. This consensus is incorporated with the latest literature and the experts' own clinical practice experience, and it marks a great progress of the ERAS practice in China. In this paper, we try to make an interpretation of the surgery part of the consensus, and the highlights and hot issues will be further discussed.