TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Enhanced Recovery Programs A1 - Simmons, Jeffrey W. A1 - Sahai, Sunil K. A2 - Cohn, Steven L. PY - 2021 T2 - Decision Making in Perioperative Medicine: Clinical Pearls AB - Enhanced recovery programs (ERPs) seek to improve the quality of surgical care by decreasing costs, decreasing complications, and increasing patient satisfaction and outcomes. It is well known that variations in surgical and anesthetic practice lead to variable outcomes, and as such, enhanced recovery programs seek to combine evidence-based recommendations to reduce complications. Additionally, a major tenet of ERP is to minimize physiologic disruption for the patient by using minimally invasive techniques and allowing for the return to homeostasis as soon as possible after surgery. Enhanced recovery programs are considered to be “modular” in that practices may adopt parts of the program that suit their needs and incorporate others as they evolve. Enhanced recovery programs are divided into three distinct phases: preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative. SN - PB - McGraw Hill CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1179531746 ER -