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The Enhanced Recovery After Surgery and Perioperative Care Society (www.erassociety.org) was formed in January of 2010 in Amsterdam and a few months later that year formally registered as a not-for-profit multiprofessional, multidisciplinary academic medical society. The Society aims to improve perioperative care by developing science and research in the field, developing and promoting education and implementation of evidence-based perioperative care programmes. The ERAS Society was started as a network of doctors and nurses involved in different disciplines in surgical practice, anaesthesia and intensive care.
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The authors are grateful for the comment and review made by the members of the first Board of the ERAS Society: professors Maarten von Meyenfeldt, Arthur Revhaug and Cornelius Dejong. The authors also recognise the instrumental work made by many young colleagues and ERAS coordinators/ERAS nurses contributing to the development of the ERAS Group and later the ERAS Society, not least by their academic work. None mentioned, none forgotten.
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Ljungqvist, O., Fearon, K.C.H. (2015). The ERAS® Society. In: Feldman, L., Delaney, C., Ljungqvist, O., Carli, F. (eds) The SAGES / ERAS® Society Manual of Enhanced Recovery Programs for Gastrointestinal Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20364-5_28
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