Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) protocols: Time to change practice?
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Radical cystectomy with pelvic lymph node dissection remainsthe standard treatment for patients with muscle invasive bladdercancer. Despite improvements in surgical technique, anesthesiaand perioperative care, radical cystectomy is still associatedwith greater morbidity and prolonged in-patient stay after surgerythan other urological procedures. Enhanced recovery after surgery(ERAS) protocols are multimodal perioperative care pathwaysdesigned to achieve early recovery after surgical procedures bymaintaining preoperative organ function and reducing the profoundstress response following surgery. The key elements of ERASprotocols include preoperative counselling, optimization of nutrition,standardized analgesic and anesthetic regimens and earlymobilization. Despite the significant body of evidence indicatingthat ERAS protocols lead to improved outcomes, they challengetraditional surgical doctrine, and as a result their implementationhas been slow.The present article discusses particular aspects of ERAS protocolswhich represent fundamental shifts in surgical practice, includingperioperative nutrition, management of postoperative ileus andthe use of mechanical bowel preparation.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.051 | 0.110 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.010 |
| Open science | 0.005 | 0.008 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.012 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".