Enhanced Recovery for Patients Undergoing Radical Cystectomy. A Randomized Controlled Study

Radical cystectomy (RC) is believed to be associated with high morbidity and prolonged length of hospital stay even with advances in perioperative medical care. Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) pathways are multidisciplinary, multimodal evidence-based approaches to perioperative protocol by which patients are treated. The most important aims of this multimodal approach are modifying as many of the factors contributing to the morbidity of RC as possible, the improvement of patients' preoperative status, and the perioperative maintenance of homeostasis by minimizing stress response and inflammation to improve patient outcomes and decrease the length of inpatient hospital stay. The investigators hypothesize that with the use of enhanced recovery of surgery (ERAS), the postoperative hospital stay after radical cystectomy is reduced, and also postoperative complications are decreased.