Vukovar, Croatia 2019.
At the ERAS (Enhanced Recovery After Surgery) symposium of the Croatian Society for Accelerated Recovery after Surgical Treatment in Vukovar, I presented the ERAS project and work experience with patients at my Department of Traumatology and Osteoarticular Surgery, University Hospital Center Zagreb.
The symposium was an opportunity to discuss the current situation about the implementation of ERAS protocols and spread the idea of the importance of multimodal and multidisciplinary approach in the treatment of operated patients in all surgical professions in the Republic of Croatia and the world. I have written about the ERAS protocol in orthopedics and traumatology in previous blogs.
During my presentation of our experiences, I gave special attention to the challenges and problems we encounter when organizing, leading the ERAS team and implementing such a protocol in today’s specific working conditions within the Croatian health system.
A new ERAS project in bone and joint surgery is being prepared, which we will work on together with our Slovenian colleagues from the University Clinical Center in Ljubljana.
I visited Slavonia and Baranja with most of the members of my ERAS team in bone and joint surgery at the University Hospital Center Zagreb. I used the visit for the purpose of the so-called “Team building” in order to raise the quality of intercollegiate cooperation and satisfaction.
