Improving Surgery By Talking To Each Other | Olle Ljungqvist | TEDxBeaconStreet

Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) is a new way for hospitals to work to reduce complications and hospital stay by 30-50% and save cost. ERAS breaks the stubborn silos of hospital departments; it enacts best practices and places the individual patient and his needs at the center of all medical decisions. This talk describes the transformative results all over the world - ones that would be worth billions if they were supplied by a pill. But the killer ingredient in ERAS is far from medicinal … it’s profoundly human
Olle Ljungqvist MD, PhD received his medical degree and obtained his PhD on glucose metabolism in hemorrhage at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. He completed his residency and held several clinical positions in gastrointestinal surgery at the Karolinska Hospital and was appointed Professor of Surgery Nutrition and Metabolism in 2005 at the Karolinska Insitutet. He chaired the Center for Gastrointestinal Disease at Ersta hospital 1999-2008, Stockholm before taking up his current position as Professor of Surgery at Örebro University, Sweden in 2009.

[erassociety]

Congrats Olle. Excellent talk! Thank you for your great leadership in this area

[sararnvcu]

Thank you for sharing. Great talk. Favorite moments - Harmonize patient journey, Nurses at the table, Communication, audit weekly, transparency, and human to human link

[olofberglund]

Excellent presentation! Great message!