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Identification Of Perioperative Barriers To Enhanced Recovery After Surgery In Colorectal Surgical Populations, Leah Marshall
Identification Of Perioperative Barriers To Enhanced Recovery After Surgery In Colorectal Surgical Populations, Leah Marshall
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Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) has evolved over the past 30 years through evidence-based interventions. Enhanced recovery after surgery uses a multidisciplinary and multimodal evidence-based approach to maximize patient recovery. Perianesthesia nurses are critical to its success and have an obligation to understand and participate in the process to optimize patient outcomes. Despite proving to decrease complications and duration of stay in colorectal surgery patients without following colorectal surgery, the implementation of ERAS in colorectal pathways have been met with barriers (Alawadi et al., 2015). Subramaniam & Horgan (2016) describe ERAS pathways as evidence-based interventions that eliminate dated practices based …