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The ERAS nurse plays a critical, multifaceted role in ensuring protocol compliance, patient education, and multidisciplinary coordination to improve postoperative outcomes and reduce healthcare costs.
This editorial highlights the critical role, responsibilities, and challenges of nurses in implementing and sustaining Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) programs.
The emergence of enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) has created advances in perioperative care. The effectiveness of ERAS is based on pathophysiological perioperative stress reduction and preservation of physiological function in the postoperative patient. ERAS guidelines are designed to reduce the development of insulin resistance, a measure of postoperative stress and a major culprit in the development of postoperative complications.1 The key elements of ERAS include patient/family education, patient optimization prior to admission, minimal fasting that includes a carbohydrate beverage 2 h before anesthesia, multimodal analgesia with appropriate use of opioids when indicated, return to normal diet and activities the day of surgery, and return to usual activities of daily living.
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Cecilia G. Peña (2022) conducted an editorial in Perioperative care. Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) nursing role was evaluated. The ERAS nurse plays a critical, multifaceted role in ensuring protocol compliance, patient education, and multidisciplinary coordination to improve postoperative outcomes and reduce healthcare costs.
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