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Standardizing Surgical Care to Improve Outcomes| Quality Time with Dr. Schaal

September 12, 2024 • Houston Methodist

Preventing infection and enhancing recovery are metrics for surgical quality of care. In this episode, Dr. Pedro Ramirez discusses efforts to standardize patient care, including implementing surgical site infection bundles and Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) initiatives before, during and after surgery to improve and improve patient outcomes.

Expert: Dr. Pedro Ramirez, chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Houston Methodist Hospital and the Alan L. Kaplan Chair in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Notable topics covered:

The use of surgical site bundles to standardize care and decrease surgical-site infection
The use of Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) guidelines preoperatively, intraoperatively and postoperatively to improve outcomes
The findings of the Prospective Randomized Study Evaluating the Surgical Approach to Patients with Early Cervical Cancer that changed National Comprehensive Cancer Network guidelines

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