Vol. 7, Issue 2, Part E (2025)

The ERAS (Enhanced Recovery After Surgery) protocol represents a comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to perioperative care, whose main objective is to accelerate patient recovery and reduce the length of hospital stay. Based on principles that seek to minimize surgical stress, optimize the patient's preoperative condition, and restore normal physiology in the shortest possible time, the ERAS model promotes coordinated care among surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses, and other healthcare professionals. Several studies have demonstrated that its application not only improves clinical outcomes and the patient experience but also decreases the incidence of healthcare-associated infections and significantly reduces postoperative complications, establishing itself as an effective strategy for modernizing surgical practice and improving hospital efficiency.