Evidence-based Clinical Care: Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS)

Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) is an evidence-based, multimodal pathway developed to provide standardized care that improves patient outcomes after major surgery. Enhanced recovery pathways are well-defined perioperative programs applying evidence-based interventions in a protocol-like manner designed to standardize the care of the surgical patient in order to improve results and to reduce overall costs including earlier discharge from the hospital after surgery.

Target Audience

Anesthesiologists, Anesthesia Assistants, Surgeons, Physician Assistants, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists, Nurses, Advanced Practice Registered Nurses, Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians and Allied Health Professionals.

Learning Objectives

  • Explain evidence supporting ERAS as a best practice. 
  • Implement ERAS pathways leveraging a multidisciplinary team approach to improve patient care. 
Additional information
Bibliography: 

Olle Ljungqvist et al: Enhanced Recovery after Surgery A Review: JAMA Surgery 2017 152(3):292-298

American Society for Enhanced Recovery (ASER) and Perioperative Quality Initiative (POQI) joint consensus statement on perioperative fluid management within an enhanced recovery pathway for colorectal surgery. Thiele et al. Perioperative Medicine (2016) 5:24

Practice guidelines for Preoperative Fasting and the Use of Pharmacologic Agents to Reduce the Risk of Pulmonary Aspiration: Application to Healthy Patients Undergoing Elective Procedures. American Society of Anesthesiologists Task Force on Preoperative Fasting the Use of Pharmacologic Agents to Reduce the Risk of Pulmonary Aspiration. Anesthesiology 2017; 126:376

Madani et al: Effectiveness of tamsulosin in prevention of post-operative urinary retention: a randomized double-blind placebo-controlled study. Int Braz J Urol.2014;40:30-6

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Course Summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 ABA MOCA II
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.00 General certificate of attendance
  • 1.00 Nurse Practitioners
  • 1.00 Florida Board of Nursing
  • 1.00 Florida Board of Pharmacy
Course opens: 
02/24/2021
Course expires: 
02/29/2024

AUTHOR

Luis A. de la Cruz, M.D., MBA
Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology and Intensive Care
Director of Education, Department of Anesthesiology
Baptist Hospital of Miami
Clinical Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Medicine
FIU Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine

Evidence-Based Clinical Care  (EBCC) Reviewers

Bianca Capella, APRN-BC
Corporate Clinical Consultant
Evidence-Based Clinical Care
Baptist Health South Florida

Suzy Monzon, MSN, R.N., CAPA
Patient Care Supervisor
Post Anesthesia Care Unit & Pain Treatment Center
Surgical Services
Baptist Hospital of Miami

Luis A. de la Cruz, M.D., MBA, author for this educational activity, has no relevant financial relationship with ineligible companies* to disclose.

Bianca Capella, APRN-BC, EBCC reviewer, has no relevant financial relationship with ineligible companies* to disclose.

Suzy Monzon, MSN, R.N., CAPA, EBCC reviewer, has no relevant financial relationship with ineligible companies* to disclose.

Non-faculty contributors and others involved in the planning, development, and editing/review of the content have no relevant financial relationships to disclose with ineligible companies*.  

*Ineligible companies -- Companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

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This activity contributes to the CME component of the American Board of Anesthesiology’s redesigned Maintenance of Certification in AnesthesiologyTM(MOCA®) program, known as MOCA 2.0®. Please consult the ABA website, www.theABA.org, for a list of all MOCA 2.0 requirements.

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Available Credit

  • 1.00 ABA MOCA II
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.00 General certificate of attendance
  • 1.00 Nurse Practitioners
  • 1.00 Florida Board of Nursing
  • 1.00 Florida Board of Pharmacy
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