Synopsis Perioperative care is the management of a patient before and after surgery. It includes early recovery without complications, adequate pain management, and retrieving optimum health. Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) is one of the advanced interventions of multimodal perioperative care. ERAS ensures maintaining organ function and reducing the stress response following surgery.
The ERAS protocols include: 1 Preoperative counseling Nutrition optimization Analgesic and anesthetic regimen standardization Early mobilization This ‘ Journal Watch ’ presents the study, “An enhanced recovery after surgery program in orthopedic surgery: A systematic review and meta-analysis,” from the Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research, 2019. Authors: Hu ZC, He LJ, Chen D, et al. What was the need of the study? 1 The implementation of ERAS is increasing, and it is considered to be the most…
