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If TEAM has your hospital searching for an evidence-based toolkit to improve surgical outcomes and reduce recovery time, participating hospitals and their surgical teams should pay heed to ERAS (Enhanced Recovery After Surgery) protocols. The guidelines are tailored to more than twenty types of surgery as well as anesthesia and intensive care. They have been successful in reducing complications by 30 percent and lowering hospital stays.
Most of the TEAM procedures are covered within specialty guidelines addressing cardiac, colorectal, cytoreductive, orthopedic, and spinal fusion surgery types. There are significant common elements among the categories.
ERAS Guidelines are daunting in their scope and creativity, covering nutrition, infection prevention, patient comorbidities, and so much more. Trauma surgery is one of the newest categories. Each challenges historical practices based on evidence, and all have been developed with consensus by surgeons and other experts. The American College of Surgery has endorsed ERAS.