The 1st National symposium supported by the ERAS Society was held in San Raffaele hospital in Milano June 17. The event gathered some 50 trams of surgeons, anesthetists, nurses and other staff from near an far in Italy. Hosting the events were professors Marco Braga, Dept of Surgery, and Luigi Beretta, Dept of Anesthesia at San Raffaele.

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Aspects of ERAS-Care pathways within colo-rectal surgery, Ulf Gustafsson, Karolinska Institutet, 2010.  

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The ERAS Care System training meeting was held in Milan, on February 10-11, 2011.  This outstanding meeting was attended by ERAS teams from Switzerland, France, Italy and Canada. ERAS Society experts Prof. Olle Ljungqvist (Sweden) and Prof. Ken Fearon (Scotland) were lecturers.

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After some preliminary contacts, the ERAS Society was formally launched in Örebro (Sweden), on May 10th 2010. Most of participants are very well known experts on Enhanced Recovery, working in this field since long-time. Prof. Olle Ljungqvist, chairman, explained the goals for the ERAS Society:

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