Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS)
Perioperative care pathways designed to speed recovery.
Papers per year
Each bar is 12 months; the last one ends 17 Oct 2026. New trials in the same years: 89, 87, 99, 116, 181.
New guidelines and consensus this year
- [International multidisciplinary consensus statement on perioperative fasting in adults]Ophthalmologie2026 Oct
- [International multidisciplinary consensus statement on perioperative fasting in adults]Urologie2026 Sep 23
- RICA pathway (Enhanced Recovery After Surgery for Adults). 2026 update: Executive summaryRev Esp Anestesiol Reanim (Engl Ed)2026 Aug-Sep
- [International multidisciplinary consensus statement on perioperative fasting in adults]Anaesthesiologie2026 Aug
- Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS®) society guidelines for gynecologic oncology: 2026 updateGynecol Oncol2026 Jul
All papers from the last 12 months
2,117 papers (18 Oct 2025 – 17 Oct 2026), newest first. Loading the full list…
- Impact of defibrotide on survival in sinusoidal obstruction syndrome / veno-occlusive disease: a retrospective cohort study comparing two sequential treatment erasHematology2026 Dec 31PMID 42720070
- Virtual or in-person? a census of residency interview formats for match 2025Med Educ Online2026 Dec 31PMID 42015468
- Temporal trends in second primary malignancies among long-term survivors of multiple myeloma across treatment eras: a population-based analysis of the SEER databaseHematology2026 Dec 31PMID 41930414
- Enhanced recovery after surgery turnkey order set for periprocedural care of the patient undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacementJTCVS Struct Endovasc2026 DecPMID 42857632
- Co-treating opioid and alcohol use disorders in the United States, 1960-2026: A historical policy review in the glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) eraDrug Alcohol Depend Rep2026 DecPMID 42750843Review
- Intraoperative esketamine for postoperative analgesia and depression in pancreatic cancer surgery: protocol for a multicenter randomized controlled trialAnn Med2026 DecPMID 42657795
- Early Postoperative Nutritional Management Under a Validated Diabetes-Specific Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Protocol in Patients With Lumbar Spinal Stenosis and Type 2 Diabetes MellitusJ Invest Surg2026 DecPMID 42632069
- Oliceridine used for patient-controlled analgesia on postoperative quality of recovery in patients undergoing laparoscopic gynecological tumour resection: a randomized clinical trialAnn Med2026 DecPMID 42583724RCT
- Effectiveness and limitations of environmental risk assessments to identify antibiotics of greatest concern in AustraliaRegul Toxicol Pharmacol2026 DecPMID 42532461
- Survival Nomogram for Stage IV (M1a-c) Melanoma: A Population-Based Study Highlighting the Prognostic Correlates of Surgery in Pre-Immunotherapy and Early Immunotherapy ErasJ Invest Surg2026 DecPMID 42446161
More general surgery trends
All specialties →AI and surgical video
Computer vision and AI applied to surgical video and intraoperative decisions.
Robotic general surgery
Robot-assisted cholecystectomy, hernia repair and colorectal surgery.
Key point: Robotic-assisted surgery was associated with a modestly shorter hospital stay and similar complications, readmissions, and reoperations versus laparoscopy in obese colorectal cancer patients.
Prehabilitation
Exercise, nutrition and psychological preparation before surgery.
Neoadjuvant therapy in pancreatic cancer
Chemotherapy or chemoradiation before surgery for pancreatic cancer.
Key point: After induction chemotherapy, neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy is used for borderline tumours to increase chances of complete resection, though survival benefit has not been demonstrated.
Antibiotics for appendicitis
Treating uncomplicated appendicitis with antibiotics instead of surgery.
Key point: Non-operative management of acute uncomplicated appendicitis was associated with high long-term failure rates and significant risk of subsequent appendectomy.
ICG fluorescence-guided surgery
Indocyanine green imaging during surgery to assess perfusion and anatomy.
Key point: FIGS with ICG is recommended for detecting non-regional metastases, identifying primary cancers and GI cancer lymph nodes, and assessing esophageal and left-sided colorectal anastomosis quality.
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How these numbers are counted
PubMed query, searched in titles and abstracts by publication date:
"enhanced recovery after surgery"[tiab] OR ERAS[tiab]Trials: ClinicalTrials.gov studies first submitted in each 12-month window that match the same terms. A query can miss synonyms or catch unrelated papers, so treat counts as approximate.