EBPOM London 2026: European Postoperative Care Pathways

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Opublikowano: 2026-08-17

This presentation was recorded at the Evidence Based Perioperative Medicine (EBPOM) 2026 Annual Global Meeting. It features Nicolai Bang-Foss, Consultant, head of GI and orthopaedic anaesthesia, Hvidovre University Hospital, Denmark His main research field is the perioperative care of the elderly emergency patient. Specific areas of research have been regional analgesia, transfusion thresholds, outreach programs and perioperative logistics as well as perioperative haemodynamics. He describes wide European variation in postoperative pathways driven largely by ICU bed capacity, with Scandinavian countries running lean systems that push PACUs toward 24-hour, higher-acuity perioperative units and preoperative optimization...