This book is the first comprehensive, authoritative reference that provides a broad and comprehensive overview of Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS). Written by experts in the field, chapters analyze elements of care that are both generic and specific to various surgeries. It covers the patient journey through such a program, commencing with optimization of the patient's condition, patient education, and conditioning of their expectations.  Organized into nine parts, this book discusses metabolic responses to surgery, anaesthetic contributions, and optimal fluid management after surgery. Chapters are supplemented with examples of ERAS pathways and practical tips on post-operative pain control, feeding, mobilization, and criteria for discharge. Enhanced Recovery After Surgery: A Complete Guide to Optimizing Outcomes is an indispensable manual that thoroughly explores common post-operative barriers and challenges.

<p>I. Introduction

1. Enhanced Recovery After Surgery: A Paradigm Shift in Perioperative Care
2. Physiology and Pathophysiology of ERAS
3. Guidelines for Guidelines
II.  Preoperative Preparation
4. Preoperative Fasting and Carbohydrate Treatment
5. Preoperative Patient Education
6. Perioperative Optimization of Patient Nutritional Status
7. Anemia and Blood Management
8. Perioperative Smoking and Alcohol Cessation
9. Preoperative Medical Optimization
10. Prehabilitation
11. Cognitive Behavior Counseling - Preoperative Preparation in ERAS
12. Bowel Preparation: Always, Sometimes, Never?
13. Pharmacogenomics in Perioperative Care
III. Intraoperative Management
14. Anesthetic Management and the Role of the Anesthesiologist in Reducing Surgical Stress and Improving Recovery
15. Analgesia During Surgery (Medications)
Chapter 16. Regional Anesthesia Techniques for Abdominal Operations
Chapter 17. Prevention of Intraoperative Hypothermia
Chapter 18. Perioperative Intravenous Fluid Therapy in ERAS Pathways
Chapter 19. ERAS and Minimally Invasive Surgical Techniques
Chapter 20. Tubes and Drains: Current Updates on Evidence on Their Role Within Recovery
IV. Postoperative Management
Chapter 21. Management of Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting (PONV)
Chapter 22. Early Oral Nutrition
23. Early Ambulation and Physiotherapy After Surgery
24. Postoperative Multimodal Pain Management
25. Nursing Considerations During Patient Recovery
V. Prevention of Postoperative Complications
26. Long-Term Outcomes Related to ERAS
27. Postoperative Ileus: Prevention and Treatment
28. Antibiotic Prophylaxis and Surgical Site Infection Prevention
29. Thromboprophylaxis
VI. ERAS After Discharge
30. Functional Recovery at Home and After Discharge
31. Recovery Within the Cancer Journey
32. Readmission Challenges and Impacts Within ERAS
33. An Example of a Patient's Experience in ERAS
VII. Safety and Quality Improvementin ERAS
Measuring Outcomes in ERAS
35. Measurement of Recovery Within ERAS
36. Measuring Compliance: Audit and Data Collection
37. Success and Failure of ERAS: Prediction Models of Outcomes
38. Research Methods in Enhanced Recovery After Surgery
39. Toward a Learning System for ERAS: Embedding Implementation and Learning Evaluation
VIII. Specialty-Specific Enhanced Recovery Programs
40. ERAS in Colorectal Surgery
41. Enhanced Recovery After Surgery: Recommendations for Esophagectomy
42. Enhanced Recovery After Gastrectomy
43. Bariatric Surgery
44. ERAS for Major Urological Procedures: Evidence Synthesis and Recommendations
45. ERAS for Breast Reconstruction
46. Gynecologic/Oncology Surgery
47. Enhanced Recovery After Surgery: Cesarean Delivery
48. ERAS in Spine Surgery
49. Orthopedic Surgery in Enhanced Recovery After Surgery
50. ERAS in Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
51. Cardiac Surgery ERAS
52. Vascular Surgery and ERAS
53. Thoracic Surgery
54. Enhanced Recovery Program in the Ambulatory Surgery Setting
55. Enhanced Recovery After Surgery: Emergency Laparotomy
56. Liver Surgery
57. Pancreatic Surgery
58. Pediatric Enhanced Recovery After Surgery
IX. Administrative
59. Department-wide Implementation of an Enhanced Recovery Pathway: Barriers and Facilitators
60. Introducing Enhanced Recovery Programs into Practice: Lessons Learned from the ERAS® Society Implementation Program
61. Enhanced Recovery After Surgery - Making the Business Case: Economics - The Alberta Experience
62. ERAS® Society and Latin American
63. ERAS® Society and Asia
64. ERAS for Low- and Middle-Income Countries
65. ERAS Position in the Global Surgical Community.</p>