SAGES

Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons

SMART Enhanced Recovery Program

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The SAGES SMART (Surgical Multimodal Accelerated Recovery Trajectory) Task Force provides the education and materials needed for surgeons to adopt a strong, evidence-based Enhanced Recovery Program (ERP) into their practices.

As such, SAGES has developed the following SMART Enhanced Recovery Program resources:

FUSE Surgical Training Program Aims to Reduce OR Fires and Enhance Safety around Operating Room Use of Energy Devices

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  • FUSE_logoSAGES has launched the Fundamental Use of Surgical Energy™ (FUSE) program, designed to educate surgeons and affiliated staff about the safe use of surgical energy-based devices in the OR, endoscopy suite and other procedural areas.
  • FUSE meets a crucial need in surgical education as previously, no formal training program has existed that promotes safety when using electrosurgical devices.
  • SAGES formed the FUSE Task Force, with participation by experts from the Association of peri-Operative Registered Nurses (AORN), the American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists, and the American Urological Association.
  • “Surgical fires occur several hundred times in the United States annually,” said Dr. Daniel B. Jones, chair of the FUSE Task Force. “ and approximately two-thirds of these OR fires involve electrosurgical equipment.”
  • The FUSE training program includes a web-based didactic curriculum that is available free on-line at fundamentals-didactics.com and covers a number of topics including the fundamental principles of electrosurgical devices, practical aspects of commonly used energy devices in various settings, integration of energy systems with other devices, as well as prevention of operating room fires.
  • To register to take the FUSE exam at the ACS Congress, please click here: https://www.fuseprogram.org/testing-information/acs-meeting-2014/. Testing for the FUSE certification exam will also be available at regional FUSE Test Centers, the SAGES Annual Meeting, and specially designated FUSE testing events.
  • img4The FUSE program is directed toward practicing surgeons regardless of specialty, surgical nurses, and other Allied Health personnel who work in the operating room and other procedural areas. Up to 12 CME and Continuing Nursing Education Contact Hours are available for this activity.
  • For more information on the FUSE program, please go to www.fuseprogram.org

 

Enhanced Recovery: The Tool You Need to Go Beyond Minimally Invasive Surgery

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  • SAGES Surgical Multimodal Accelerated Recovery Trajectory (SMART) Initiative,combining minimally invasive surgical techniques with enhanced recovery pathways for perioperative care, improves outcomes and patient satisfaction.
  • “We’ve made great advances in improving patient recovery using minimally invasive surgical techniques, but outcomes can be further improved by combining laparoscopic surgery with an enhanced recovery care plan to deliver evidence based care throughout the perioperative period: preop, intraop and postop,” said Dr. Liane Feldman, Chair, SAGES SMART Task Force. “That’s the goal of SAGES SMART enhanced recovery program, to combine multiple perioperative interventions to maximize the value of minimally invasive surgery, but surgeons can’t do this alone.”
  • SMART enhanced recovery task force invites you to join us on Saturday, November 22, 2014 at the Hotel Delta Montreal, Quebec for the SAGES/ERAS Society Canada course on enhanced recovery for gastrointestinal surgery. This one-day practical introduction to creating and implementing  enhanced recovery programs. The course will bring together surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses and other perioperative experts to review the building blocks of enhanced recovery and experiences in implementation to allow SAGES surgeons to implement enhanced recovery for a variety of procedures in their own practices.
  • The course directors include Dr. Franco Carli, Dr. Liane Feldman and Dr. Sender Liberman.  The essential building blocks of an ERAS program will be reviewed, and speakers will share experiences in implementing programs in foregut, bariatric, hepatobiliary and colorectal surgery.
  • For more information visit https://www.sages.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/ERAS-2014.pdf and to register, please contact the McGill Continuing Education Office at 514-934-8253 or cme@muhc.mcgill.ca

 

The Mission of the SAGES SMART Enhanced Recovery Task Force is to promote the integration of Enhanced Recovery care principles as a cornerstone of minimally invasive surgery to improve safety, efficiency and outcomes of GI surgery.

SAGES Research Grant Applications Now Open

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SAGES is now accepting Research Grant Applications for the 2015 year. To submit your grant, please visit:

https://www.sages.org/projects/research-grants/

The deadline is Friday, November 3rd, 2014 at 5:00PM EST.

The SAGES Research Awards are open to any principal investigator who is a SAGES member, including Candidate members. SAGES would like to especially encourage grant funding to young investigators/candidate members in the hopes that funding through SAGES will lead to additional extramural funding. Awards are conferred on a competitive basis by submission of a grant application, which is reviewed and evaluated by the SAGES Research Committee and approved by the Governing Board.

Grants are limited to no more than $30,000 each, for a period of one year, and are made to the principal investigator. The purpose of these grants is to stimulate original research in gastrointestinal and endoscopic surgery. The study may be either “bench” research or clinical.

This year the committee will be awarding ONE NEW GRANT dealing with enhanced recovery after surgery. For more information, detailed instructions and guidelines please contact research@sages.org