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Despite extensive evidence supporting Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) benefits, several barriers to its implementation have been identified.
ERAS programmes reduce post-operative complications and hospital stay length, but face implementation barriers that need to be addressed.
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Supports broader ERAS use in elective surgery; leaves open optimal strategies to overcome implementation barriers.
Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) programmes are an innovative approach to optimising patient outcomes in the perioperative period and have been implemented in various surgical departments across a range of specialties, with varying degrees of success. ERAS is an evidence-based, multimodal programme that has repeatedly demonstrated a reduction in post-operative complications and reduced the length of hospital stays following elective surgery. However, despite extensive evidence to support these benefits, several barriers to ERAS implementation have been identified. This article outlines the components of ERAS, focusing on the barriers to its implementation and how these could be overcome. It also discusses the implications of ERAS for patients, nurses and healthcare organisations.
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