June 21, 2017
Carolina Refresher 2017
Check out “Creating pathways for quality improvement at your institution” by Robert S. Isaak, DO & Lavinia M. Kolarczyk, MD from 12-1 this Thursday 6/22 at the Carolina Refresher!
Category: News
May 9, 2017
ASER Releases 2nd Newsletter!
UNC Enhanced Recovery Manager and co-chair for the American Society of Enhanced Recovery newsletter Lyla Hance has worked with Tom Hopkins of Duke to put out the 2nd quarterly ASER newsletter. Read it online at publizr!
May 9, 2017
Highlights from ASER
Several ERAS team members represented UNC at ASER’s congress in D.C. this April: Sara Scarlet, MD presented a poster on implementing ERAS for lower limb amputation Rob Isaak, DO, co-chairs the hepatobiliiary committee and co-led a panel on ERAS for hepatobiliary surgery Lyla Hance, MPH presented a poster on pre-operative mental health optimization as a …
January 31, 2017
UNC presents at Annual Thoracic Anesthesia Symposium
UNC Department of Anesthesiology Resident Christo Frangopoulos submitted an abstract which has been accepted to the SCA 6th Annual Thoracic Anesthesia Symposium! UNC Department of Anesthesiology Resident Christo Frangopoulos submitted an abstract which has been accepted to the SCA 6th Annual Thoracic Anesthesia Symposium! If you are headed there in April, be sure to check …
November 15, 2016
UNC presence at ASA
6 residents and 3 faculty members from UNC’s Dept. of Anesthesiology along with 3 surgeons from UNC’s Dept. of Surgery represented the Enhanced Recovery After Surgery program at ASA 2016. View the recent publications to see a list of posters and abstracts about Enhanced Recovery After Surgery presented at ASA 2016! Enhanced Recovery Pathway (ERP) …
August 17, 2016
3 Members of UNC’s Enhanced Recovery Leadership Team Selected to Serve on ASER National Committee!
We are pleased to announce that three members of UNC’s Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Leadership Team are honored for this opportunity to serve The American Society for Enhanced Recovery (ASER). The American Society for Enhanced Recovery (ASER) is “a nonprofit organization with an international membership, which is dedicated to the practice of enhanced recovery in …
March 21, 2016
Annual Congress of Enhanced Recovery and Perioperative Medicine
The Annual Congress of Enhanced Recovery and Perioperative Medicine seeks to discuss the various elements of an enhanced recovery pathway, appreciate the current evidence base, as well as gaps in understanding and controversies and to understand new care delivery models and approaches, and how to apply these models to improve outcomes. The Annual Congress of …
March 13, 2016
Drs. Sadiq and Kolarczyk discuss ERAS at OBGYN grand rounds
Dr. Tim Sadiq, MD Assistant Professor UNC Division of GI Surgery and Dr. Lavinia M. Kolarczyk, MD Assistant Professor UNC Department of Anesthesiology discuss “Quality Improvement in Surgery at UNC Implementation of Enhanced Recovery in Colorectal and Pancreas Surgery” at the March 2nd OBGYN Grand Rounds. Dr. Tim Sadiq, MD Assistant Professor UNC Division of …
March 13, 2016
Best Clinical Abstract Award
An abstract based on the Enhanced Recovery program at UNC was chosen, of the 1,400 abstracts submitted for consideration, for possessing the characteristics of outstanding scientific rigor, importance, and broad appeal. Titled: “Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Clinical Pathway for Patients Undergoing Pancreatic Surgery Decreases Hospital Length of Stay,” the abstract was written by program …
March 13, 2016
First patient at UNC was enrolled into an Enhanced Recovery Pathway
In July of 2014, the Enhanced Recovery program was implemented for pancreatic surgery patients having surgery with Dr. HJ Kim. This marked a paradigm shift at UNC, and the next year was spent implementing and refining processes related to pathway adherence. In July of 2014, the Enhanced Recovery program was implemented for pancreatic surgery patients …