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Breakthrough Procedure Helps Those Dealing With Colorectal Diseases Breakthrough Procedure Helps Those Dealing With Colorectal Diseases
Breakthrough Procedure Helps Those Dealing With Colorectal Diseases When dealing with an incredibly personal disease such as colorectal cancer, it's important for patients to receive effective, minimally invasive treatment. And thanks to a new approach to colorectal surgery at Highland Surgical Associates and Montefiore Nyack Hospital, doctors are also able to decrease patient discomfort, shorten length of hospital stays and shorten recovery times as well. Known as Enhanced Recovery After Surgery -- or ERAS -- the strategy includes a series of steps before, during and after colorectal surgery for cancer or benign diseases. “ERAS not only shortens hospital s…