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.
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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Baptist Health South Florida is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Baptist Health has been re-surveyed by the ACCME and awarded Commendation for 6 years as a provider of CME for physicians.
Baptist Health South Florida designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
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.
American Board of Surgery - Maintenance of Certification (MOC) - Accredited CME- General Surgery
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Available Credit
- 1.00 ABA MOCA II
- 1.00 ABS MOC 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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