Evidence-Based Perioperative Medicine comes of age: the Perioperative Quality Initiative (POQI): The 1st Consensus Conference of the Perioperative Quality Initiative (POQI)

Timothy E Miller; Andrew D Shaw; Michael G Mythen; Tong J Gan; Perioperative Quality Initiative (POQI) I Workgroup

doi:10.1186/s13741-016-0055-y

Evidence-Based Perioperative Medicine comes of age: the Perioperative Quality Initiative (POQI): The 1st Consensus Conference of the Perioperative Quality Initiative (POQI)

Perioper Med (Lond). 2016 Oct 13:5:26. doi: 10.1186/s13741-016-0055-y. eCollection 2016.

Authors

Timothy E Miller¹, Andrew D Shaw², Michael G Mythen³, Tong J Gan⁴; Perioperative Quality Initiative (POQI) I Workgroup

Affiliations

¹ Division of General, Vascular and Transplant Anesthesia, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710 USA.
² Department of Anesthesiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN USA.
³ UCL/UCLH National Institute of Health Research Biomedical Research Centre, London, UK.
⁴ Department of Anesthesiology, Stony Brook University School of Medicine, Stony Brook, NY USA.

Abstract

The 1st POQI Consensus Conference occurred in Durham, NC, on March 4-5, 2016, and was supported by the American Society of Enhanced Recovery (ASER) and Evidence-Based Perioperative Medicine (EBPOM). The conference focused on enhanced recovery for colorectal surgery and discussed four topics-perioperative analgesia, perioperative fluid management, preventing nosocomial infection, and measurement and quality in enhanced recovery pathways.

Keywords: Analgesia; Colorectal surgery; Enhanced recovery; Enhanced recovery pathway; Fluid management; Infection; Measurement; Quality.

Publication types

Editorial