Events ERACS after Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery Course
The course emphasizes collaboration across specialties and provides actionable guidance for starting an ERACS program, addressing key considerations and challenges.
It is particularly valuable for teams aiming to standardize best practices, improve patient outcomes, and strengthen perioperative pathways.
Faculty / Audience
- Led by Evaldas Girdauskas
- Intended for cardiac surgeons and multidisciplinary teams (anesthesiologist, ERAS nurse/Advanced practice Nurse, physiotherapist, perfusionist, psychosomatic medicine)
Objectives
- Understanding of ERACS principals
- Optimizing Perioperative Care Through Multidisciplinary Collaboration
- Insights prehabilitation, patient selection, and risk stratification
- Implementing ERACS Pathways in Clinical Practice
Dates:
- Sep 24-25, 2026
- Dec 10-11, 2026
Day 1
15:00 – 15:30 | 30 min
Welcome to the hospital
15:30 – 17:00 | 1h 30 min
What does ERACS mean?
ERACS Guidelines and Insights into the randomized INCREASE Trial
Prehabilitation: Pre-operative patient management
ERACS from a multidisciplinary team:
• A Cardiac Surgeons’ perspective
• An Anesthesiologists’ perspective
• An ERAS Nurse perspective
Pushing the limits in ERAS:
• High risk patients
• CABG/Robotic patients
17:00 – 18:00 | 1h
Visit Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) and ICU
18:00 – 19:00 | 1h
Case presentation for the following day – Patient selection, Echo and CT scan evaluation
19:00
Group dinner
Day 2
08:30 – 19:00 | 30 min
Welcome to the hospital
09:00 – 10:00 | 1h
ERACS tips & tricks from different perspectives
• Physiotherapists’ perspective
• Psychosomatic physicians’ perspective
• Patients’ perspective
10:00 – 12:00 | 2h
Interactive visit to the OR / PACU
12:00 – 13:00 | 1h
Lunch break with Q&A
13:00 – 14:00 | 1h
How to start an ERACS program: Key considerations and challenges
14:00
